Claude Monet, 1840-1926, developed a passion for waterlilies.
He grew them at Giverny from the mid-1890s onwards and painted them more than two hundred times beginning in 1899.
Bridge over a Pond of Waterlilies, 1899, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Waterlilies, Japanese Footbridge, 1918-1926, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Philadelphia Museum of Art
A rare palette for this artist?
The Waterlilies, 1905, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Water Lilies,and detail, oil on canvas, 1916-1919
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The colours of this painting are too rich for a simple camera. The painting is best seen on the site of the Met which won’t permit online reproduction of this:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437137
This triptych was bought by MOMA, NY from the artist’s son, Michel Monet, in 1959
following widespread outpouring of grief – the Museum’s word – at the destruction by fire in April 1958 of two of the artist’s waterlily paintings owned by the museum.
Triptych of waterlilies, Water Lilies, 1914-1926, oil on canvas,
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. MOMA, NY. Photo from the net.
Detail of the triptych, Water Lilies, 1914-26
so peaceful!