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Water Lily Pond, 1900
Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 39 3/4 in. (89.8 x 101 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1933.441
Gallery 243
The water lily theme obsessed Monet in the last thirty years of his life. He had moved to the village of Giverny, on the Seine, west of Paris, in 1883. In 1893, he bought a plot of land adjacent to his house and built a pond for exotic water plants, decorating it with a Japanese-style bridge painted green. This painting is from the first of several series inspired by views of the water garden.
| Artists: | Claude Monet. |
| Subjects: | impressionist, landscapes, water, weather/seasons. |
| Classifications: | modern and contemporary art, painting. |
| Media: | oil. |
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Video: Monet's Model of Water and Light |
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Introduction: Monet's Water Lily Pool |
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Examination: Monet's Water Landscapes |
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Monet's Water Garden |
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Artist Biography: Claude Monet |
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