The Gare Saint-Lazare, Exterior View
Museum Assignment: The Kimbell The piece “The Gare Saint-Lazare, Exterior View” is painted by the French impressionist Artist, Claude Monet, during the Impressionist era in 1877. The work is done with oil paints on canvas and dark colored tones. The subject of the work is the train station. The brushstrokes of the painting are quite rough, and the figures are hard to distinguish. The setting is located at a railroad station at St. Lazare. It is part of a series and this piece is of the exterior of the train station. There is one train facing towards the viewer and people crowding by the train as if they are boarding onto the train or getting off. There are workers to the left appearing to load items onto a train and behind them appears to