The Water Lily Pond 1919

Claude Monet

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Work Overview

Water Lily Pond
Claude Monet
Date: 1918 - 1919
Style: Impressionism
Series: Water Lilies
Genre: flower painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 73 x 105 cm
Location: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France


Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, French: [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.


During the 1920s, the state of France built a pair of oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie as a permanent home for eight water lily murals by Monet. The exhibit opened to the public on 16 May 1927, a few months after Monet's death.[1] Sixty water lily paintings from around the world were assembled for a special exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in 1999.