Claude Monet’s Water Lily Ponds

The foundation now in control at Claude Monet’s estate near Giverny, France, and along the Seine River, has gone to great lengths to create an accurate simulacrum of the pond and flower gardens that were the source for some of Monet’s greatest paintings: especially those of water lilies. Millions have seen his oversized paintings of the estate’s pond and its lilies, notably at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and most especially in the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris’s Tuileries Garden. The following photos represent my own interpretation of the ponds and their flora.