The Magnificent Variations of Claude Monet: His Series of 12 Works on the Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet 
La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée du train de Normandie
En 1877
H. 60,3 ; L. 80,2 cm. 
Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, Etats-Unis
© Domaine public  
The Impressionists frequently paid tribute to the modern aspects of Paris. Their paintings are filled with scenes of grand boulevards and elegant new buildings, as well as modern structures such as iron bridges, exhibition halls, and railway sheds.
With his work Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Claude Monet chose to focus his attention on the glass and iron shed, where he found an appealing combination of artificial and natural effects, with the rising steam from the locomotives trapped within the structure and the daylight.
In 1877, Monet completed eight of his twelve known paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare: this canvas was finished in time to be revealed at the third Impressionist exhibition that same year.