Giverny Impression » Claude Monet

The beautiful water garden created by the impressionist master Claude Monet at Giverny still inspires painters. Monet’s house and gardens will re-open on March 24, 2017. I’m looking forward t...

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Claude Monet, ‘L’homme au petit chapeau’ (The Man in the Small Hat) 1855/56, Art Institute of Chicago. Monet started his career as a caricaturist. The Art Institute of Chicago keeps one of ...

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  Here is a close-up of the desk that can be seen in Claude Monet’s bedroom at Giverny. It is from the mid 18th Century and features music instruments, not painting material. It was already an...

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Claude Monet is buried at Giverny. His grave is located behind the church. It’s a 10 minute walk from his house. It is a big family tomb planted with flowers, what sounds only natural for such ...

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Fall atmosphere in Monet’s gardens at Giverny. The picture was taken from the steps of the dock next to the water lily pond. On the left, the green leaves of pontederias. The red shrub on the o...

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Do you want to have a look at the Monet Garden while it is closed for the winter? Here is the Japanese bridge as it was this morning. Giverny is now closed for five months. The village will awake...

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Claude Monet designed his water garden from scratch, turning a marshland into a beautiful waterscape to paint. His eye as a painter can be noticed in the much thought of composition of the garden...

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Late May or early June, Monet’s garden turns mostly purple. On the pond banks, mauve ladies’ rocket matching exactly the big rhododendrum  on the other side of the path combines with mauve o...

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This tree standing alone next to the greenhouse in Monet’s garden at Giverny is a holly. Not a wild, ordinary one: it has beautiful golden rimmed leaves. Nonetheless, the holly disappears in t...

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Summer is coming to an end, offering a large display of flowers in Claude Monet’s gardens at Giverny. The flower beds that looked organised in early season are now full of overgrown plants, sun...

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Monet’s garden at Giverny is so beautiful at the turn of May and June that it has a taste of Paradise.  In this season, spectacular flowers like irises, paeonies, wallflowers and roses bloom a...

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Early in the morning, long before the first visitor arrives in Monet’s garden at Giverny, rays of orange sunshine stroke the Japanese bridge of the water garden, while a light mist raises fr...

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Walking around Monet’s pond in summertime gives a strange feeling of deja vu. This place especially, where the long branches of three big weeping willows reach the surface of the pond, offering...

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Monet’s pond is frozen. A small coating of snow hides the surface like a new canvas. Long blue shadows stretch on the shining whiteness.  Not a single flower.  Even the brave pansies are cove...

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A detail strikes the visitors who enter Monet’s bedroom at Giverny: the bed is ridiculously small. Claude Monet wasn’t very tall, and he didn’t share his bed with his wife. They had separa...

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