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Title: Water Lilies. Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) Date: 1919. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (101 x 200 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1998, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002. Accession ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Water Lilies, series of some 250 oil paintings that were created by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet from the late 1890s to his death in 1926 and were focused on the water lily pond in his garden.
In 1899, he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, completing twelve paintings, including the present one, that summer. The vertical format of the picture, unusual in this series, gives prominence to the water lilies and their reflections on the pond. Listen.
In 1893, Monet had a lily pond dug and planted at his house in Giverny. Beginning in 1899, and continuing for the rest of his life, paintings of this pond were the dominant theme of Monet's art. This painting illustrates the fluid, nearly abstract style the artist developed through these water lily paintings.
Date Created: 1922. Physical Location: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. Physical Dimensions: 79 × 84 in. (200.7 × 213.4 cm) Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted Topic: Gigapixel Collection. Plants,...
Claude Monet, Water-Lilies, after 1916. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
The first series of 8 paintings of water lilies, which includes the one in the Galleria Nazionale, was a small-format test of a major project which would only be completed after his death, with...
