'Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

What century saw new forms of transportation and new artistic movements?

1830s-1930s

When did railways begin large-scale expansion?

1830s

When was ‘Arrival of the Normandy Train’ painted?

1877

When/where was Monet born?

Paris, 1840

Where did Monet grow up?

Le Havre, a port city in Normandy

What French colony did Monet serve in?

Ageria

When did Monet leave for Paris to study art?

1862

Who taught Monet painting?

Academic painter Charles Gleyre

When did Monet show his works at the Salon?

1865, 1866, and 1868

What artists pushed Monet to more abstract landscapes?

Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When did societe anonyme form?

1874

Who formed societe anonyme?

Monet, Edgar Degas, and Gustave Caillebotte

Who coined the term Impressionist?

Louis Leroy

What years did Paris experience revolutions?

1789, 1814, 1830, and 1848

What iconic buildings of Paris were constructed during urban renewal?

Printemps department store (1865) and Opera (1875)

Through 1900, ____ new railroad stations were constructed in Paris

7

What was the FIRST rebuilt rail station in Paris?

Gare Saint-Lazare (1835)

Where is Gare Saint-Lazare located?

Central Paris, 10 minutes away from the main shopping district

Where is Normandy?

Northwestern France

When was the Pont de l’Europe constructged?

1853

What materials did the train hall use?

Iron and glass

What works did Honore Daumier make about the Gare Saint-Lazare

`Le Charivari and On the Train Again (1850s-64)

When did Edouard Manet paint “The Railway’?

1873

When did Caillebotte paint ‘Le Pont de l’Europe’?

1876

Monet made ___ paintings of Gare-Saint Lazare

12

Where did Monet live 1871-77

Argenteuil

When did Monet rent a studio space near Gare Saint-Lazare?

1877

What are two other works in the Gare-Saint Lazare series?

Harvard’s ‘Fogg Museum’ and "‘Musee d’Orsay’ in Paris

The foreground makes up _____ of “Arrival of the Normandy Train”

1/4

____ of Monet’s Saint-Lazare paintings were exhibited at the 3rd Impressionist show

7

When was Impressionism officially regarded as an important step in modernist experimentation?

Mid-1900s

When did Monet die?

1926