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Find the open blue water between the lily clusters and look for reflected trees where you might expect a shoreline.
This 1906 canvas belongs to a group of pond views Monet painted between 1903 and 1908, before his much larger late water-lily decorations. Conservation research reveals extensive changes beneath the surface: the seemingly passing reflections took sustained work.
Oil on canvas · 89.9 × 94.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Water Lilies
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 89.9 × 94.1 cm (35 3/8 × 37 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.