Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last 31 years of his life.

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The Water Lily Pond, 1899 by Claude Monet. By the 1890s, the financial worries that had plagued Monet for most of his life were coming to an era and he was able to buy Giverny - in fact he had established some wealth and was able to lavish his money …

Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, 1899. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.

Monet’s water lilies were a hybrid breed in pink and yellow as well as white. The undersides of the water lilies were dark red, the same colour in which Monet signed the painting. Red is on...

Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his life. Water Lily Pond was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899–1900; their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other ...

Water lily pond Monet was always fascinated by the light interplays and cloud reflections on the water. His many artworks painted on his floating studio, in Argenteuil or on Dutch canals, illustrate his fascination for the upside-down reflections in those liquid mirrors.

These included a planned series of large-scale decorations featuring the water-lily pond, to accommodate which he had a new studio built in 1915-6. The day after Armistice on 11 November 1918, he pledged to present a group of these to the French State as a monument to peace. In 1927 twenty-two works were installed in the Orangerie, Paris.

Only four water lily paintings from 1904 survived his rampages—this painting is one of them. Monet started out painting broader views of his pond, but increasingly narrowed his focus downward until he was only showing the water’s surface.

A Japanese bridge spanned the pond at its narrowest point. This is among the first of Monet's paintings to emphasize the reflections of the bank and the sky on the flat surface of the water. Inscriptions Lower left: Claude Monet 1900