About the work
Between 1899 and 1901 Claude Monet spent three winters in London, painting the Thames from a room at the Savoy Hotel. Waterloo Bridge appears in more than forty of these canvases, each catching a different hour of fog, smoke and light. In Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, dated 1903 after he finished it in his studio at Giverny, the arches dissolve into soft greys, lilacs and a hint of rose, with chimneys rising behind. It is a quiet, wide picture that slows a room down, which makes it a natural choice above a bed or a sofa. The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
