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Follow the bridge’s curve, then look below it for the vertical reflections broken by horizontal patches of lilies.
Monet began creating this water garden at Giverny in 1893, adding a pond and a Japanese-style bridge. He designed the setting as well as painting it, returning to the bridge and pond in eighteen canvases during 1899–1900.
Oil on canvas · 89.8 × 101 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Water Lily Pond
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 89.8 × 101 cm (35 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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.