When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources of inspiration and longed to be considered, like Manet, Degas and Caillebotte, a painter of modern life. Title The Saint-Lazare Station Creator Lifespan 1840 - 1926 Creator Nationality French Creator Gender Male Date Created 1877 Provenance Gustave Caillebotte bequest, 1894 Physical Dimensions w1040 x h750 mm Painter Claude Monet Original Title La gare Saint-Lazare Credit Line ? RMN (Mus¨¦e d'Orsay) / Herv¨¦ Lewandowski Type Oil on canvas Rights Musee d'Orsay, dist. RMN
