Boats in the Pool of London (Bateaux dans le bassin de Londres), 1871 by Claude Monet

Boats in the Pool of London, painted by Claude Monet in 1871, captures the crowded stretch of the Thames just below Tower Bridge, where sailing ships, steamboats, and rowing skiffs crowd together beneath a hazy gray sky thick with smoke and river fog. Monet painted this scene during his months of exile in London after fleeing the Franco Prussian War and the Paris Commune, working alongside fellow refugee Camille Pissarro to study the city’s industrial waterfront. The canvas is among the small group of London harbor views that mark Monet’s first sustained engagement with urban and industrial subject matter.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1871.

Boats in the Pool of London (Bateaux dans le bassin de Londres), 1871. Early Impressionist Thames Wall Art Canvas Print.