Claude Monet Picture

This Claude Monet picture at the National Gallery of Art shows a Japanese Footbridge over a lily pond, a popular theme in his Impressionist paintings.

He began to paint the lily pond in his private garden at Giverny, while he was completing his series of Rouen cathedral.

In the last decades of his life, Claude Monet's prized water garden and the footbridge he built over it became his most important - and eventually only - subject.