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MONET, Claude: Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

🖼 Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877
Oil on canvas
Chicago, United States

Steam and smoke billow through the station's glass canopy as the locomotive emerges, rendered in Monet's signature broken brushwork capturing fleeting light. This series exemplifies Impressionism's focus on atmospheric effects and industrial modernity, elevating an everyday urban scene to high art.

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