Paris – Musée d’Orsay: Claude Monet’s Nymphéas bleus

About the work

Claude Monet’s Nymphéas bleus (Blue Water Lilies) was painted from 1916 to 1919.

"Nymphaea" is the botanical name for a water lily. Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist’s sole source of inspiration. He said: "I have come back to things that are impossible to do: water with weeds waving in the depths. Apart from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden."

Paris – Musée d’Orsay: Claude Monet’s Nymphéas bleus is available in the public domain via Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic .