Waterloo Bridge

French artist Claude Monet painted this view of Waterloo Bridge between 1899-1904 during his London campaigns. The atmospheric study captures the bridge emerging through Thames fog, with industrial smokestacks creating hazy silhouettes in the distance. Monet worked from his room at the Savoy Hotel, observing how light transformed the urban scene hour by hour.

This painting belongs to a series of over forty Waterloo Bridge views. Monet applied paint in broken brushstrokes, building layers of color to suggest fog diffusing light. Now at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.