{"data":{"id":16584,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/16584","is_boosted":false,"title":"Houses of Parliament, London","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBgAFAPQAAGRucGt0dGB4h2F5h2B5jWV9jmZ\/lnuGimWAkm2AkWqEmHOHlnmGlneJlXqIlnOJmIONlISNl4uRmY2VnYCOoYeSoo6Xp4+YpJKZo5OcqZCcq5ihq6GiqqCjqgAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAGAAUAAAUY4MV1WjZVG2VhDpMYz0I0hYIMQiRBRwCEADs=","width":5876,"height":5127,"alt_text":"A work made of oil on canvas."},"main_reference_number":"1933.1164","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1900,"date_end":1901,"date_display":"1900\u20131","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Claude Monet (French, 1840\u20131926)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NFPs_cRRGdM&t=4s\">London<\/a> campaigns, Claude Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the late afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas\u2019s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/37043\">J. M. W. Turner<\/a> in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834. In his response to the poetry of dusk and mist, however, Monet was actually inspired by the work of a more recent painter of the Thames, the American James McNeill Whistler.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas\u2019s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist J. M. W. Turner in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834. In his response to the poetry of dusk and mist, however, Monet was actually inspired by the work of a more recent painter of the Thames, James McNeill Whistler.","dimensions":"81.2 \u00d7 92.8 cm (32 \u00d7 36 9\/16 in.); Framed: 103.6 \u00d7 115 \u00d7 10.8 cm (40 3\/4 \u00d7 45 1\/4 \u00d7 4 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":92,"height":81,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":10,"width":115,"height":103,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 162, cat. 2147. \n\nM. C., \u201cMonets in the Art Institute,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 2 (Feb. 1925), pp. 20 (ill.), 21.\n\nAnthony Bertram, Claude Monet, The World\u2019s Masters (Studio\/William Edwin Rudge, 1931), pl. 20.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cFranz\u00f6sische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,\u201d Pantheon: Monatsschrift f\u00fcr freunde und sammler der kunst 11, 3 (Mar. 1933), p. 77. Translated by C. C. H. Drechsel as \u201cFrench Impressionists in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Pantheon\/Cicerone (Mar. 1933), p. 18.\n\nCalifornia Palace of the Legion of Honor and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, exh. cat. (Recorder, 1939), pp. 47, cat. L-132; 108, cat. L-132 (ill.).\n\nBuford L. Pickens, \u201cH. H. Richardson and Basic Form Concepts in Modern Architecture,\u201d Art Quarterly 3 (1940), pp. 275, fig. 2; 277.\n\nOscar Reutersw\u00e4rd, Monet: En konstn\u00e4rshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 287.\n\nWichita Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, exh cat. (Wichita Art Museum, 1954), p. 3, cat. 18.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cCatalogue,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 34.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 321.\n\nFrank Seiberling, \u201cA Guide to the Exhibition,\u201d in University of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and Its Roots, exh. cat. (University of Iowa Gallery of Art, 1964), p. 7.\n\nUniversity of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and Its Roots, exh. cat. (University of Iowa Gallery of Art, 1964), p. 43, cat. 37 (ill.).\n\nAnthea Callen, The Impressionists in London, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973), pp. 48\u201349, cat. 28 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, \u201cThe Evolution of an Impressionist,\u201d in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 36.\n\nSusan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 163, cat. 106 (ill.).\n\nA. James Speyer, Twentieth-Century European Paintings, compiled by Courtney Graham Donnell (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 59, cat. 3A12; microfiche 3, no. A12 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, Monet\u2019s Series (Garland, 1981), p. 378, no. 53.\n\nJohn House, \u201cCatalogue of the Exhibition,\u201d in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery\/NZI, 1985), pp. 102; 103; 105, cat. 33 (ill.).\n\nJohn House, \u201cMonet and the Genesis of His Series,\u201d in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery\/NZI, 1985), pp. 16, 23.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonn\u00e9, vol. 4, Peintures, 1899\u20131926 (Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 1985), pp. 184; 185, cat. 1600 (ill.); 431, pi\u00e8ce justificative 278.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1987), pp. 91, 92 (ill.), 118.\n\nGrace Seiberling, Monet in London, exh. cat. (High Museum of Art\/University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 23, fig. 17; 59; 62; 84; 102, cat. 20.\n\nJudi Freeman, \u201cFar from the Earth of France: The Fauves Abroad,\u201d in Judi Freeman, The Fauve Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art\/Abbeville, 1990), pp. 187; 190, pl. 192; 191.\n\nNina Kalitina, Claude Monet: Tableaux des mus\u00e9e d\u2019URSS (\u00c8d. d\u2019Art Aurora\/Cercle d\u2019Art, 1990), p. 124 (ill.).\n\nAndrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 56; 57; 99, pl. 28; 109.\n\nJudi Freeman, Fauves, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of New South Wales\/Thames & Hudson, 1995), p. 86, fig. 1.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Thames & Hudson, 1995), p. 138, cat. 117 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9\/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 4, Nos. 1596\u20131983 et les grandes d\u00e9corations (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), pp. 708\u201309, cat. 1600 (ill.).\n\nMeyer Schapiro, Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions (Braziller, 1997), pp. 181\u201382; 183, fig. 86.\n\nThomas McBurney, Artistic Greatness: A Comparative Exploration of Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Monet (Galde, 1999), p. 305 (ill.).\n\nMatthew Drutt, ed., Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2001), pp. 140, 142 (ill.).\n\nJohn E. Thornes and Gemma Metherell, \u201cThe Art and Science of London\u2019s Atmosphere around 1900,\u201d in London\u2019s Environment: Prospects for a Sustainable City, ed. Julian Hunt (Imperial College Press, 2005), pp. 118, fig. 3; 119.\n\nDavid A. Brenneman, \u201cClaude Monet, Le Parlement de Londres, effet de brouillard,\u201d in L\u2019impressionnisme, de France et d\u2019Am\u00e9rique: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas . . . , ed. Fran\u00e7oise Cachin and Richard R. Brettell, exh. cat. (Artlys\/Mus\u00e9e Fabre\/Mus\u00e9e de Grenoble, 2007), p. 136.\n\nEric M. Zafran, \u201cMonet in America,\u201d in Wildenstein and Co., Claude Monet (1840\u20131926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, exh. cat. (Wildenstein and Co., 2007), p. 112.\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 167; 170, cat. 88 (ill.); 171. Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 167; 170, cat. 88 (ill.); 171. \n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, \u201cAndr\u00e9 Derain, The Palace of Westminster, 1906\u20137,\u201d in Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee, The Robert Lehman Collection, vol. 3, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\/Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 253, fig. 3; 255.\n\n\u201cCat. 41: Houses of Parliament, London, 1900\/01\u201d in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470<\/a>.\n\nGloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), 110 (detail ill.), 111 cat. 67, 139.","exhibition_history":"San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Dec. 29, 1939\u2013Jan. 28, 1940, cat. L-132 (ill.).\n\nUniversity of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Nov. 28\u2013Dec. 19, 1951, no cat.\n\nChicago, Remington Rand, window display, Apr. 14\u201330, 1952, no cat. \n\nWichita (Kans.) Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, May 9\u201323, 1954, cat. 18.\n\nPark Forest (Ill.) Art Center, Mar. 25\u2013Apr. 22, 1956, no cat. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1\u2013June 15, 1957, no cat. no. \n\nIowa City, University of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and Its Roots, Nov. 8\u2013Dec. 6, 1964, cat. 37 (ill.).\n\nLondon, Hayward Gallery, The Impressionists in London, Jan. 3\u2013Mar. 11, 1973, cat. 28 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15\u2013May 11, 1975, cat. 106 (ill.). \n\nShelburne (Vt.) Museum, June 7, 1984\u2013Jan. 29, 1985, no cat. \n\nAuckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, Apr. 29\u2013June 9, 1985, cat. 33 (ill.); Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 21\u2013Aug. 4, 1985; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Aug. 14\u2013Sept. 29, 1985.\n\nAtlanta, High Museum of Art, Monet in London, Oct. 9, 1988\u2013Jan. 8, 1989, cat. 20 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, July 22\u2013Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 117 (ill.).\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 88 (ill.).\n\nLondon, Tate Britain, Crossing the Channel: Impressionists in London 1870-1904, Nov. 2, 2017-May 5, 2018; traveled to Paris, Petit Palais, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris and used new title Impressionists in London, French artists in exile, 1870-1904, June 6-Oct. 14, 2018.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 67.","provenance_text":"Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 10, 1916 [this and the following Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913\u201321 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 10, 1916, for 22,500 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 6 or Dec. 4, 1916 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris stock book for 1913\u201321 (no. 10899, as Westminster, 1903) and New York stock book for 1904\u201324 (no. 4026, as Vue de Londres, Westminster, 1903), both confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file; The Paris and New York Durand-Ruel stock books record different dates for the sale]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 18, 1916, for $10,000 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904\u201324 (no. 4026, as Vue de Londres, Westminster, 1903), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file; see also, Durand-Ruel to M. A. Ryerson, Dec. 26, 1916, in which Durand-Ruel informs Mr. Ryerson that they sent, on the date of the letter, the painting Mr. Ryerson had recently purchased, excerpt published in Wildenstein 1985]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1933,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":21.4345,"color":{"h":200,"l":50,"s":15,"percentage":0.40767908586922313,"population":2526},"latitude":41.879530517768,"longitude":-87.6228040281029,"latlon":"41.879530517768,-87.622804028103","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 243","gallery_id":2147479703,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":35809,"artist_title":"Claude Monet","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[35809],"artist_titles":["Claude Monet"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["painting","oil painting","london","Impressionism","oil paint (paint)","20th Century","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting","painting","paint","canvas","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","oil on canvas","french","european painting","building","buildings","cities","city","blue","blue (color)","green (color)","tower","modern and contemporary art","weather\/seasons","landscapes","water","urban life"],"style_id":"TM-7543","style_title":"Impressionism","alt_style_ids":["TM-13130"],"style_ids":["TM-7543","TM-13130"],"style_titles":["Impressionism","20th Century"],"classification_id":"TM-9","classification_title":"painting","alt_classification_ids":["TM-10387","TM-78","TM-66","TM-14976","TM-54","TM-155"],"classification_ids":["TM-9","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-66","TM-14976","TM-54","TM-155"],"classification_titles":["painting","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","oil on canvas","french","european painting","modern and contemporary art"],"subject_id":"TM-13180","alt_subject_ids":["TM-14683","TM-15031","TM-12657","TM-13944","TM-15162","TM-11843","TM-11849","TM-14924","TM-10095","TM-8657","TM-8681","TM-10126"],"subject_ids":["TM-13180","TM-14683","TM-15031","TM-12657","TM-13944","TM-15162","TM-11843","TM-11849","TM-14924","TM-10095","TM-8657","TM-8681","TM-10126"],"subject_titles":["london","building","buildings","cities","city","blue","blue (color)","green (color)","tower","weather\/seasons","landscapes","water","urban life"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","painting","paint","canvas"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"03930df3-1e6c-eeca-8660-c0b22ca477ff","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":["645cd224-0c8f-0a61-b974-263161a376ca"],"sound_ids":["645cd224-0c8f-0a61-b974-263161a376ca"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[36743538688],"section_titles":["Cat. 41 \u00a0Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-01"],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1933.1164"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Houses of Parliament, London"],"weight":17937,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-09-03T13:39:39-05:00","updated_at":"2026-09-03T16:41:48-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-06T05:53:21-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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