Monet often worked in series, painting the same subject under different conditions. He explained that, “For me, a landscape hardly exists at all as a landscape, because its appearance is constantly changing; but it lives by virtue of its surroundings, the air and the light which vary continually.” The motif was therefore insignificant. “What I want,” he said, “is to reproduce what exists between the motif and me." In his home country, he painted wheatstacks, the cliffs of Pourville, the Rouen Cathedral, and other series. In London, he took to the architecture along the river Thames; its bridges and the Houses of Parliament. “London,” he commented, “wouldn't be a beautiful city," but for "the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth.
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