Focus on Gare Saint-Lazare (Monet series) and analyze the Background.
Gare Saint-Lazare station is the terminus of the first railway in Paris and one of the six largest terminuses in Paris, which opened in 1837. During the 1850s and 1860s, the station had expanded at an exponential rate due to industrialization, and it attracted contemporary painters including Monet, Manet, and Caillebotte. In the 1870s, contemporary artists started to draw inspiration from trains, stations, and railways. One critic felt compelled to call the entire Impressionist movement “the School of the place de l’Europe,” which referred to Gare Saint-Lazare's square.
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