View of the Small Arm of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1872 – Claude Monet Wall Art | Early Impressionist Canvas Print

Painted in 1872, Claude Monet's View of the Small Arm of the Seine at Argenteuil captures one of the quieter branches of the river at Argenteuil, rendered in the freshly observed broken brushwork and brilliant palette of his early Impressionist style. The painting belongs to the foundational period of the movement — the year before the first Impressionist exhibition — when Monet was systematically working through the riverbanks, boats, and bridges of the town that would become the canonical site of early Impressionism. A historically significant and serenely composed work for any interior drawn to the origins of French Impressionism.