Impressionism · 1899
Claude Monet 1840–1926
Princeton University Art Museum · Princeton
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Step back and let the canvas breathe. Monet painted this in 1899, not from imagination but from a garden he built himself — diverting a stream at Giverny, planting the pond with lilies, arching a Japanese-style bridge across its centre. The beginning of a lifelong obsession.
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