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Water Lily Pond  1900

by Claude Monet

In 1893, three years after buying property at Giverny, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge. Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his lif...
Size: 
89.8 × 101 cm (35 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago