Charing-Cross-Brücke with River Thames

Charing-Cross-Brücke with River Thames is one of Monet's Thames series, painted during his extended London stays between 1899 and 1901. The Charing Cross railway bridge, which carried trains across the Thames near the Hungerford foot-bridge, became one of Monet's signature subjects — a structure that combined industrial modernity with extraordinary atmospheric transformation depending on the time of day and state of the weather. This canvas, now in the Yamadera Gotō Museum of Art in Japan, represents the global dispersal of Monet's London series after the celebrated 1904 Paris exhibition.

The bridge recedes across the canvas as a sequence of pale arches dissolved in atmospheric haze. Monet works in a cool register — grey-lavender and pale blue — with soft warm accents suggesting suppressed sunlight. The river surface is animated by gentle horizontal strokes.