Le pont de Waterloo

Le pont de Waterloo from 1903 at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami shows Monet treating the bridge in cool overcast conditions — one of the many atmospheric variants he explored across the series' dozens of canvases. The Lowe Art Museum, associated with the University of Miami, holds this work as part of its French collection. By 1903 Monet had visited London for the last time (his stays were in 1899, 1900, and 1901) and was completing all his London paintings in his Giverny studio — a creative process very different from the plein-air spontaneity his public assumed.

The cool palette of blue-gray and muted green dominates, the stone bridge taking on a soft violet tone in the overcast light. Monet's handling here is more fluid and less dotted than his Seine paintings — the Thames series has a smoother, more atmospheric touch suited to the fog-softened conditions he was depicting.