The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture, The National Gallery, London: 9 April 2018 – 29 July 2018

In the UK's first Monet-focused exhibition in over 20 years, you get the chance to see some of the artist's lesser-known work on architecture. A quarter of the paintings have been borrowed from private collections, so this is a rare opportunity.

There will be over 75 Monet paintings in total, taken from various stages of his lengthy career. From the impressionist bridges of his youth, to the buildings of Venice and London, which he painted as an elderly man, his work beautifully captures a rapidly changing society.

The paintings have been organised into three sections: The Village and The Picturesque, The City and The Modern, and The Monument and The Mysterious.

There are world-famous pieces, like the controversial Boulevard de Capucines (1873), alongside rarely seen works and pieces that have never before been shown together, such as the two 1878 paintings of the church at Véutheuil. There will also be a rare gathering of the great 'series' paintings, including seven paintings of Rouen cathedrals from 1892-5; ten of the Paris suburbs and Argenteuil, completed in the mid-1870s; and eight paintings of London dating between 1899 and 1904.

The National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Opening times

Saturday – Thursday: 10:00 - 18:00
Friday: 10:00 - 21:00