Claude Monet - The Japanese Bridge 1899
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The Japanese Bridge 1899
92x73cm oil/canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist, purchased land with a pond near his property in Giverny, intending to build something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint." The result was his water-lily garden. In 1899, he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, completing twelve paintings, including the present one, that summer. The vertical format of the picture, unusual in this series, gives prominence to the water lilies and their reflections on the pond.