Waterloo Bridge (Monet series)

Under exile during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet travelled to London for the first time in 1870.

His fascination with London lay primarily in its fogs,[2] a by-product of the Industrial Revolution.

[3][4] In 1899 Monet returned to London and rented a room in the Savoy Hotel, which offered an extensive viewpoint from which to begin his series of the city.

[6] He repeatedly painted the Waterloo Bridge and created other paintings of the city's sights, including the Houses of Parliament series and Charing Cross Bridge series.

While Monet began all of the paintings in London, he completed many of them in his studio in Giverny.