Water Lilies

Claude Monet · 1914-26

You're looking at Water Lilies — a painting by Monet, nineteen fourteen to nineteen twenty-six. Monet was part of the Impressionism movement. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 6' 6 1/2" x 19' 7 1/2" (199.5 x 599 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 515: Water Lilies, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand

More by Claude Monet here: Water Lilies, Agapanthus