"Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge," Claude Monet, 1899.
Monet needs no introduction, and this image hardly does, either. It's almost a cliche.
Monet was a passionate horticulturist, and this is an image of a water lily garden he cultivated, with a Japanese-style bridge he built himself.
Monet did a series of paintings of his garden, a dozen in all, that steadily became more abstract as he grew nearer to death.
This one, though, is almost THE quintessential Impressionist painting, reproduced everywhere and hanging on many people's walls. But it captures so many things loved by the Impressionists...light, nature, and Japanese influences (they LOVED Japanese art).
From the Musรฉe d'Orsay, Paris.
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