Claude Monet: The Bridge at Argenteuil Poster

Claude Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil is an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris. Monet was fond of painting controlled nature: his own gardens in Giverny, with its water lilies, pond, and bridge. He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine. Earlier in his life, disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken colour and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. This painting is a pleasant, refreshing image appropriate for virtually any setting. Anyone with an interest in boating, railroads, France, or Impressionism would be especially happy with this picture.