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Water Lily Pond, Claude Monet

ART_OF_DAY · November 14

Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet, 1900

In 1893, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his Giverny 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.

Oil on canvas · 89.8 × 101 cm (35 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 122.6 × 10.2 cm (44 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 4 in.)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec30 worksWinslow Homer22 worksUnknown Artist21 worksDaniel Hudson Burnham20 worksJean-Eugène-Auguste Atget12 worksPaul Gauguin11 worksPierre-Auguste Renoir11 worksClaude Monet9 worksGeorge Inness9 worksHilaire Germain Edgar Degas8 worksJean Baptiste Camille Corot7 worksKeiga7 worksOdilon Redon7 worksUtagawa Hiroshige7 worksAlfred Stieglitz6 worksÉdouard Jean Vuillard6 worksÉdouard Manet6 worksEdvard Munch6 worksFélix Hilaire Buhot6 worksKatsushika Hokusai6 worksRembrandt van Rijn6 worksVincent van Gogh6 worksCamille Pissarro5 worksDavid Lucas5 worksFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes5 worksHenri Fantin-Latour5 worksPaul Cezanne5 worksRodolphe Bresdin5 worksWenceslaus Hollar5 worksAlbrecht Dürer4 worksHelen Hyde4 worksHonoré-Victorin Daumier4 worksIsoda Koryusai4 worksJames McNeill Whistler4 worksJean Louis Forain4 worksKitagawa Utamaro4 worksThéophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen4 worksUtagawa Kuniyoshi4 worksBannister Hall Print Works3 worksFrederic Remington3 worksGeorge Baxter3 worksHenri Matisse3 worksJohn Singer Sargent3 worksLucas Cranach the Elder3 worksMarsden Hartley3 worksMary Cassatt3 worksSalvator Rosa3 worksSuzuki Harunobu3 works

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