![Claude Monet - Le Pont de Bois [1872]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/733/20918431430_baacb9e87a_o.jpg)
Le Pont de Bois is a classic plein air Impressionist painting that was executed sur le motif (in nature and without preliminary sketches). The moment depicted is clearly the kind of real-life experience that is at odds with the painting of previous eras, which would have found such an image unworthy of the subject of a great painting.
[Sold for £6,242,500 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm]