Monet Bridge Over Water Lilies
The bridge over a pond of water lilies was created in 1899 and it s a part of the famous water lilies series which contains around 250 paintings.
Monet bridge over water lilies. The water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. Water lilies or nymphéas french. The paintings from this series including the bridge over a pond of water lilies depict monet s beloved flower garden in his home. Monet was a passionate horticulturist.
92 7 x 73 7 cm famous paintings by claude monet impression sunrise the magpie woman with a parasol san giorgio maggiore at dusk women in the garden snow. Unlike the artist s garden at giverny which was a single painting monet would paint many series of the exact same scene in an effort to capture the different lighting conditions at various times of the day or season and also in varying. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Another source for the idea of growing his water lilies in a wild fashion instead of the more traditional victorian style of growing them in rows was william robinson s the wild garden a popular british gardening book published in 1870 monet may have encountered on his stay in london that year during the franco prussian war or later when it found a following in france see willsdon 2004.
He enlarged the existing pond filling it with exotic new hybrid water lilies and built a humpback bridge at one end inspired by examples seen in japanese prints. The water lilies and japanese bridge is actually one of a series of paintings of the sixteen canvases that were planned only 12 were brought to completion.