Impressionism, Iron Architecture ·
chronological order 9
A series of some 250 oil paintings made by Claude Monet in his garden at
Giverny between 1899 and 1926, all of them about the water lily pond he
had designed and paid for himself. The final monumental versions make up
eight compositions spread across twenty-two panels of differing lengths.
Monet offered the set to the French state when the First World War
ended; the donation was formalised in 1922 and the Orangerie rooms
opened in 1927. They hang unframed in two oval spaces, so the panorama
wraps around you.
