This hall is devoted to Claude Monet (1840–1926), one the leading Impressionist painters. On display are works representing about 40 years in his oeuvre. The earliest painting by Monet in the Hermitage collection is Woman in the Garden (1867) created seven years before the first Impressionist exhibition. Sunlight might already be called the main protagonist of this work. Pictures painted in the 1870s and 1880s present the development of this method. The latest work in the collection, Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog (1903), is one of a series of famous views of this London motif.
The hall also contains works by Eugène-Louis Boudin (1824–1898), who was Monet’s first artistic mentor and then was influenced by his pupil, Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927) and Albert Lebourg (1849–1928), whose manner of painting was also influenced by Monet.
