and it is these that inspired the water garden – the most famous of his two gardens. Here you’ll find Monet’s iconic wisteria-clad Japanese bridge (made from beechwood by a local craftsman ...

The illustrious Frenchman may have spent two decades painting ponds in his back garden ... Charing Cross Bridge after visiting the gallery to imagine them filtered through Monet's vision.

The Water-Lily Pond – completed in 1899 – is of Monet’s water garden in Giverny ... with exotic new hybrid water lilies, and built a bridge at one end inspired by examples seen in Japanese ...