Boats in the Pool of London, 1871 – Claude Monet Wall Art | Early Impressionist Thames Canvas Print

Painted in 1871, Claude Monet's Boats in the Pool of London belongs to the small but historically momentous group of works produced during his London exile in the months of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. The Pool of London — the stretch of the Thames immediately below Tower Bridge — was then the busiest commercial waterway in the world, and the canvas captures its dense river traffic under the diffused, atmospheric northern light. London exposed Monet for the first time to the work of Turner, an encounter that would resonate for decades in his treatment of light, water, and atmospheric effect. A historically significant and biographically distinctive work for any interior drawn to the origins of French Impressionism.