Claude Monet Water Lily Pond Matted Print

Print developed from Claude Monet’s Water _Lily Pond_, 1900, from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. 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 life. _Water Lily Pond_ was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899–1900; their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other vegetation on the pool’s surface.

Maker

Art Institute of Chicago

Materials

Premium cardstock

Dimensions

16 x 20 in.

Period

19th Century

Category

Prints & Posters

About the artist

Claude Monet

French painter (1840–1926)

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