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The Footbridge at Giverny
Claude Monet
In the 1890s, Monet designed an ideal natural environment around his farmhouse at Giverny. He created a water garden by diverting a tributary of the Epte River. The pond, planted with water lilies, bamboo, weeping willows and other trees, reeds, and irises, is crossed at its narrowest point by a Japanese footbridge (built in 1893). Monet's goal was to create beautiful motifs for his art, and his garden would be his primary subject for the last twenty-five years of his life.
Monet began to paint what he referred to as "water landscapes" in 1899. Many of the works from this initial series represent the footbridge, the design of which derived from a Japanese print in Monet's collection of Japanese art. |
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