Water Lilies
Claude Monet · 1906 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Water Lilies is a public-domain painting by Claude Monet, dated 1906. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
One of Monet’s water-lily canvases, dated 1906, painted from the pond he built at Giverny. The horizon is gone. The surface of the water, the pads, and the reflections are the whole picture.
About the artist
Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a founder of Impressionism. He painted the same motif again and again — haystacks, the Rouen cathedral, the Thames, then the water lilies at Giverny — to catch how light changes.
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