From Rouen the road led us to Giverny, to visit Claude Monet.
"I'm good for nothing but painting and gardening." Claude Monet.
Once Monet, passing by the train past the village of Giverny, which is 80 kilometers from Paris, drew attention to its picturesqueness, to the peaceful picture of village life, blooming gardens, peace and tranquility, spilled in the air.
In 1883, he first rents, and after 7 years he buys a large brick house with a garden and a vegetable garden on 1 hectare of land. This is how it looks in Monet's painting (all reproductions used here are from paintings by Claude Monet):
I saw him like this: 
After 3 years, he buys a plot across the railway (today there is a highway and an underpass). Here he diverts a canal from a tributary of the River Epte to create a pond and a water garden. 
In this estate, he will happily live the second half of his life, 43 years old, with his sons Jean and Michel, with his beloved second wife Alice and her six children (the first wife, Camille, died at the age of 32 from tuberculosis). 
He is already a well-known artist, well-earned, respected and loved by friends, he often has impressionist artists in his estate and at the Giverny hotel, among them there are many foreigners, especially Americans who want to study with the master of impressionism.
(Claude Monet in Giverny. In the photo - the far right)
I have seen a lot of house-museums and memorial estates in Russia, I don’t really like them because of their “lifeless” and “non-residential” appearance, the cords that enclose the entrance to the rooms, the caretakers who vigilantly monitor visitors ... Everything in Giverny “breathes” with presence Monet, you can walk freely in a pink house with green shutters,
look at the paintings on the walls (unfortunately, copies)
look into the studio, from which he seemed to have just left, look out the window from which he admired his garden, getting up every morning at 5 o'clock and setting off to write sketches.
You can see the bedroom, with copies of his work and paintings of friends,
See what the dining room looked like with Japanese prints - his hobby, and the kitchen
There is a regular garden in front of the house, in which Monet planned the planting of flowers, bushes and trees in such a way that they would constantly bloom, replacing each other from early spring to late autumn.
Monet created his garden as a work of art, as a big picture, considering perspective, form, color, light, and shadow.
But his favorite place was the Japanese water garden. He said: “... The revelation of my fabulous, wonderful pond came to me. I took the palette, and since that time I have almost never had another model.
He was always fascinated by the idea of conveying reflections in the water in the picture, water reflections and, of course, water lilies, white and multi-colored, which had not previously been in France. Four years before Monet began to equip his water garden, in 1889 at the World Exhibition in Paris, he saw multi-colored water lilies bred by a French breeder.
Claude Monet painted more than 270 paintings, which depict his water garden, a bridge entwined with wisteria (there are 6 of them in the garden),
the famous water lilies, the reflection of the sky and weeping willows in the water, the vibrating color, gentle shadows.
In 1912, Monet underwent two cataract operations and began to see white as blue or purple in the ultraviolet, so we can often see a lot of blue in his paintings of those years.
In 1911, his wife Alice died, and soon his eldest son Jean, Monet fell into depression. His stepdaughter Blanche Goshede (or Oshede), who was married to Jean, after the death of her husband moved to Giverny in 1913, helped Monet, being a good artist herself, supported him until the end of her life. One of the streets in Giverny today bears her name.
In 1926, Claude Monet died of lung cancer at the age of 86 and was buried in the local cemetery. The house and garden passed to the youngest son Michel, but he lived in Paris, Blanche and the senior gardener looked after the garden, trying to keep everything in its original form. The manor and garden were damaged during the war, Michel sold his father's collection of paintings to private museums in the 50s, many paintings by Monet and his friends ended up in the United States. After Michel's death in a car accident, Monet's house and garden were bequeathed (Michel had no children) to the French Academy of Fine Arts. The remaining paintings went to the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris, which today houses the largest collection of works by Claude Monet.
In the 70s, great work was carried out to restore the house, garden, and the surrounding landscapes; today they have almost the same appearance as during Monet's lifetime.
If it were not for the large number of tourists filling the rooms of the house and wandering along the paths of the garden, then you would have a complete impression of how the great artist lived here. And maybe it would even seem to you that he is sitting by the pond on a foggy morning and drawing his adorable water lilies or relaxing on a bench in his garden.…
Near the estate, if you are tired and hungry, you can have a bite to eat in a cozy cafe serving dishes from the famous Norman ducks,
or watch the white Norman cows, they say, and in Monet's time they also grazed in the meadows near the estate.
All photos of the estate and the house were taken by me in Giverny in August 2015.
As they say, it was love at first sight. When the famous Impressionist Claude Monet rode a train past the village of Giverny, he was struck by the lush greenery of the area. The artist realized that he would spend the rest of his life here. It was Giverny that became the main inspiration for the painter, and the gardens, which Monet spent half his life landscaping, are today considered a real treasure of France.
Claude Monet settled in Giverny in 1883. At that time, money was difficult for the family, and he barely had enough money to rent the estate. But a few years later, the artist's business went uphill, his paintings began to sell well, and in 1890 Monet managed to buy the estate. Having become the full owner of this place, the artist expanded the house and started creating another of his masterpieces - a flower garden.
The artist cut down coniferous trees and replaced them with rose bushes, the garden was moved deep into the site so as not to spoil the flower garden with its appearance. The work on the arrangement of the garden took more than one year. At first, his children and wife helped him, and then Monet hired a whole group of gardeners. The artist carefully thought out the whole flower ensembles.
The French statesman Georges Clemenceau once noted: “With amazing subtlety, the artist of light remade nature in such a way that it helped him in his work. The garden was an extension of the workshop. From all sides you are surrounded by a riot of colors, which is good gymnastics for the eyes. The gaze jumps from one to the other, and from constantly replacing each other shades the optic nerve is more and more excited, and nothing can pacify this delight.
Monet's most famous paintings were painted in Giverny. The artist's wife Alice Oshede also said: "The garden is his workshop, his palette". The impressionist himself admitted to journalists in an interview that everything he earned went to the gardens.
The death of her beloved Alice in 1911 greatly shocked Monet. On this basis, the artist began to develop cataracts. His paintings became more and more blurred, but the painter did not stop writing and working in the garden.
When Claude Monet passed away in 1926, his son Michel inherited the estate. Unfortunately, he did not share his father's passion for flowers. The paintings were sold, the house fell into disrepair, and the magnificent flower gardens were overgrown with weeds.
Michel Monet died in a car accident in 1966. He had no heirs and, according to his will, the Giverny estate became the property of the Academy of Fine Arts (Académie des Beaux Arts). Then the academy did not have the funds to restore the estate, which was in a deplorable state. The famous Japanese bridge, destroyed by rodents, rotted more and more every year, furniture was broken by vandals, the garden turned into an overgrown area.
In 1976, the restoration of the estate of Claude Monet was taken up by Gérald Van der Kemp, who became famous for the restoration of Versailles. The energetic restorer turned to American patrons for help, and the funds were found. It took many years before the Giverny estate regained its former splendor. To date, the gardens of Claude Monet are considered a national treasure of France.
Claude Monet himself miraculously became an artist. allow you to look at the work of the artist from a different angle.
A picturesque place is located 80 kilometers north of Paris Giverny (Giverny). Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world, hundreds of thousands of people who are not indifferent to beauty, make a pilgrimage here. An impressionist artist lived and worked here for forty-three years. Claude Monet.
In 1883, the artist bought a house in this village, where he settled with his entire large family. Monet idolized nature. He was fond of gardening, bought books, and took great interest in the land near his new home. (continued below Y.K.)
WHAT GOOD MATERIAL TO SEE
HOW PHOTOS ARE POOR TO PAINTING
______ Monet's garden and his paintings _______
with horror and haste the eye runs
from the natural garden in the photos
to relax on Monet's painting
think gratefully
- thanks for seeing the real garden
but how poor he is regarding pictures
not in a real garden - and thoughts and feelings
which are to the pictures
and even more marked the abyss
between photography and painting
and even more clear naive stupidity - what's on the canvas
(hyperrealists but essentially photographers)
use photographic unnecessary turns out to be "accuracy"
losing the generality of precious art
just looking at the field is nice
but hear what
- "to live life is not a field to cross"
much more meaningful
because in addition to the field there is a generalization of art
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my hello Monet
behind the gate
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The artist exchanged seeds with other gardeners, carried on an active correspondence with nurseries. For local peasants, “urban” ones were an unusual sight. The artist did not shun any dirty work in the garden, the locals respected him very much.
The Monet family for a walk in the garden (artist on the right)
Édouard Manet "The Monet Family in the Garden"
Monet at his house in Giverny
At first, the house and the surrounding land occupied no more than 1 hectare. But after 10 years, when Monet's financial affairs went well, he bought another plot, which was separated from the old one by the railway. Later it was replaced with a roadbed for cars, so Monet's territory remained divided.
Thanks to artistic talent and diligence, what used to be just a vegetable garden near the house turned, thanks to Monet, into a real celebration of color, light and beauty. He planted everything with various kinds of flowers and plants.
The artist was so fond of plants and flowers (which means an abundance of colors during their flowering!) that when he got a voluminous catalog of flower seeds, he did not spend much time studying it and ordered everything! Roses, lilies, wisterias, tulips, daisies, sunflowers, gladioli, asters - all this met the eyes of the Monet family and their guests.
But the second part of the garden, behind the highway, causes special attention and awe among visitors. This is the so-called water garden. You can get there through a tunnel. Everyone who comes here involuntarily freezes, holding his breath, seeing the masterpiece created by the great artist, recognizing the plots of his world-famous paintings.
Claude Monet "White Water Lilies"
Claude Monet "Waters"
Claude Monet "Waters. Green reflection, left side"
He drained the marshland, formed ponds and channels, skillfully directing the water of the Epte River into them.
The shores of the pond were decorated with a variety of plants - raspberries, holly, Japanese sakura, anemones, peonies and many others. The main attraction of the garden is the Japanese bridge, entwined with wisteria, which simply cannot fail to recognize lovers of the artist's work. And most importantly, Monet ordered the seeds of nymphs (water lilies) from Japan and decorated the water surface of the pond with them. Nymphaeums of different varieties were planted in the pond, weeping willows, bamboo, irises, rhododendrons and roses were planted along the banks.
The garden for Monet became his muse and his main occupation. Claude Monet wrote about water lilies:
“I planted them for pleasure, without even thinking that I would write them. And suddenly, unexpectedly, the revelation of my fabulous, wonderful pond came to me. I took the palette, and since that time I have almost never had another model.
The painting technique of this artist is different in that he did not mix paints. And he placed them side by side or layered one on top of the other with separate strokes. Monet's favorite manner of working in series allowed him not to ignore the slightest nuances of color, light - since each shade of the state of nature could be dedicated to a separate canvas. Japanese bridge? - 18 options. Pond with white water lilies? - 13 paintings. Water lilies? - 48 paintings. And the list could go on and on...
Claude Monet "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge"
In 1916, when he was already 76 years old, he built a spacious studio to the right of the main house, which was called the "Water Lily Studio". Here the artist realized his last grandiose idea - he created panels depicting water lilies, which formed a circular panorama of about 70 m in circumference.
These paintings he donated to France, and they were placed in a specially built pavilion, which is located on the edge of the Tuileries Garden, where it opens onto the Place de la Concorde. If you look at the pavilion from above, it looks like a figure eight. In two oval rooms connected by a lintel, paintings depicting a pond in Giverny are hung: six or eight canvases. In essence, this is one picture that conveys changes in nature in the course of the day that are inaccessible to the ordinary eye.
Art critics say that painting here has reached such perfection that it blurred the line between realism and abstract art. Claude Monet just stopped the moment, because everything goes away, but nothing disappears, and life is always waiting for the next day. It was a lifetime triumph of the work of Claude Monet.
Claude Monet "Water lilies (clouds)"
Claude Monet "Pond with water lilies and irises"
Corner of the garden in Montgeron.
Pond in Montgeron
Camille Monet with her son in the garden
Of the seven required years in the service, he will stay for two years, as he will fall ill with typhus. He was also helped to return home by 3,000 francs, which his aunt paid to pay off his nephew from military service. Having recovered from his illness, Monet enters the Faculty of Arts of the University, but is quickly disappointed. He does not like the approach to painting that prevailed there.
The beginning of creativity
The desire to learn leads him to a studio organized by Charles Gleyre. Here he meets Alfred Sisley and Frederic Basil. At the Academy, he met Pissarro and. Young artists were of the same age, had similar views on art. Soon they became the backbone that united the Impressionists.
The portrait of Camille Donsier, created by the artist in 1866 and exhibited in the salon, made him famous. The first serious work was the painting "Breakfast on the Grass" (1865-1866), written by him after the work of the same name by Edouard Manet. Claude's version was four times the size. The composition of the picture is quite simple - in a clearing near the forest there is a group of smart women and men.
The value of the picture is in the feeling of air movement, enhanced by textured strokes. She did not get to the exhibition, as the artist did not have time to finish the large canvas. Financially constrained, Claude had to sell the painting in order to forget about hunger and not borrow from friends. Instead, the artist exhibited "The Lady in Green" (portrait of C. Donsier).
The next two-meter canvas "Woman in the Garden" is completely painted in the open air. To catch the right lighting, the artist dug a trench that allows the canvas to be moved up and down. I had to wait a long time for the right lighting, and only after that take up the brush. Despite his desire to achieve perfection, the jury of the salon rejected the work.
Impressionism
A new direction in painting, called "impressionism", was a revolution in painting. To feel the immediacy of what is happening and to convey it on the canvas is the task that the Impressionists set themselves. Claude Monet was a prominent representative and founder of this trend. He was an plein air artist, conveying the natural, momentary beauty of the surrounding space.
In the summer of 1869, in company with Renoir, he went to the open air in Bougeville. In the new paintings, painted in large pasty strokes, he refuses mixed shades. He writes in pure color and makes many discoveries for himself regarding the technique of painting, the features of chiaroscuro, the influence of surrounding shades on the color, etc. This is how impressionism appeared and developed - an innovative trend in the visual arts.
Painting by Claude Monet “The Houses of Parliament. Sunlight in the Fog" With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, Claude Monet, trying to evade the army, goes to England. He did not support Napoleon III and was his staunch opponent. In England, he meets Paul Durand-Ruel, a seller of paintings. They will become good friends and partners. Paul will buy from the artist most of the paintings of this period of his work.
The money from the sale made it possible to purchase a house in his homeland, in Argenteuil, in which he lived for several happy years until 1878. During this period, the artist works fruitfully, creating his paintings, including the famous work of Claude Monet “Impression. Sunrise". The name of this masterpiece expresses the essence of impressionism and was used by critics to define a new direction in painting. "Sunrise" was exhibited in 1974 in Paris.
Monet devotes a lot of time to serial compositions: he depicts views of London, Rouen Cathedral, Haystacks, Poppies and other landscapes. In an impressionistic manner, it conveys unequal illumination depending on the weather, time of day and year, using its own tone of the palette for each state. It is difficult to find words to describe the paintings of the great impressionist, they need to be felt and understood.
Life in Giverny
Having saved up money, Monet entrusts the financial affairs to E. Goshede. The bankruptcy of a businessman forces the families to pool their capital and move to the village of Vetey. Here, in his biography, tragic events occur related to the death of his wife, and then his son. In 1883, the Monet family moved to the village of Giverny, located on the picturesque banks of the Seine. At this time, his paintings are selling well, he has amassed a good fortune, part of which he spends on expanding his garden.
It is known that the famous artist was also a gardener who created his garden for 43 years. He found satisfaction not only in growing plants and contemplating the result of his labors. In the last years of his life, Monet went out with an easel to his luxurious garden and painted a lot. The great worker and "slave of his work", as he called himself, tried to achieve perfection in transferring the beauty of the surrounding nature to the canvas.
During this period, the artist masters a new technique. Writes several pictures at the same time. In this way, he tries to capture changeable lighting. A painting session on one picture could last half an hour, then he moved on to another in order to catch and convey another momentary impression. For example, a series of his paintings depicting Cape d'Antibes is presented in morning, noon, autumn, summer and spring lighting.
Personal life
The artist's first wife was Camille Donsier, who posed for him for The Lady in Green and other paintings. She gave birth to two sons with a difference of 11 years. After the death of his beloved wife, who was also his constant model, the artist begins a relationship with Alice Goshede. Officially, they will become husband and wife after the death of her husband Ernest. Alice died in 1911, three years later his eldest son Jean passed away.
Claude Monet and Alice Goshede in Piazza San Marco, Venice The work of Claude Monet is in the TOP-3 of the most expensive painters. The average price of paintings is $7.799 million. The most expensive of them (“Water Lilies”, (1905) is estimated at $43 million. Works are kept in museums around the world. Russia, Great Britain and the USA are considered to be major owners of the artist’s legacy.
Death
The artist lived a long life, underwent two operations to remove cataracts, after which his color perception changed. He began to see ultraviolet in purple or blue. This can be seen in his paintings, written after the operation. An example of such work is "Water Lilies". During this period, he spends most of his time in the garden, creating on his canvases the mysterious world of water and plants. The famous series of his last panels is represented by a variety of ponds with water lilies and other aquatic plants.
The artist died in Giverny on December 5, 1926 from lung cancer at the age of 86, outliving many people dear to him. At his insistence, the farewell ceremony was simple and not crowded. 50 people came to say goodbye to the artist. Monet was buried in the church cemetery.
The most famous paintings
- "Women in the Garden" (1866)
- "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse" (1867)
- "The Thames Below Westminster (Westminster Bridge)" (1871)
- "Impression: The Rising Sun" (1872)
- "Field of poppies at Argenteuil" (1873)
- Boulevard des Capucines (1873)
- "Cliff Walk at Pourville" (1882)
- "Lady with an umbrella" (1886)
- "Rouen Cathedral: main entrance in the sun" (1894)
- "Water Lilies" ("Nymphaeums") (1916)
The most expensive paintings
- Water Lilies (1905) - $43 million
- The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil (1873) - $41 million
- "Water Lilies" (1904) - $36 million
- "Waterloo Bridge. Cloudy "(1904) - $ 35 million.
- Path to the Pond (1900) - $32 million
- Water Lily Pond (1917) - $24 million
- Poplars (1891) - $22 million
- "Houses of Parliament. Sunlight in the Fog (1904) - $20 million
- Parliament, Sunset (1904) - $14 million
C. Monet. Giverny
If you drive 80 km north of Paris, you can get to a very picturesque place - Giverny. This village is famous for the fact that Claude Monet lived and worked here for forty-three years.
Claude Monet, photograph by Nadar, 1899. Oscar Claude Monet is a French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism.
The territory of Giverny has been inhabited since the Neolithic period, as evidenced by archeological data. The settlement existed in the time of the Romans.
In early spring, when the color flies from the trees, all strewn with petals .... Arab delegation
Carla Lavatelli - creator of beauty
This is where Claude Monet is buried.
During the reign of the Merovingians, a parish was founded, headed by the church of St. Radegunda.
Very modest and no frills
In 863, King Charles II the Bald recognized Giverny as the possession of the monks from the abbey of Saint-Denis-les-Fermands. In the 11th century, the fief of Giverny, together with the church, returned to the control of the Abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen. In the Middle Ages, a number of seniors changed in Giverny, but they all remained vassals of the abbot of Saint-Ouen.
There were many monasteries in the town. The house next to one of them was called Le Moûtier, and the name of another estate, La Dîme, comes from the word "tithe", since until the Revolution it served as a place for collecting this tax in favor of the abbey.
During the Revolution, the lands of Giverny were owned by the Le Laurier family. M. le Laurier became in 1791 the first mayor of the village.
Claude Monet's house is full of flowers, as it was during the life of the artist
"House at Giverny". Frederic Carl Frieseke, 1912. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Having settled in the village in 1883, the artist Claude Monet was so carried away by gardening that there was almost nothing on his canvases except for the views of his favorite garden and the poppy field, which is located on the edge of the village.
Office, workshop overlooking the garden
At first, Monet's garden consisted only of the territory adjacent to the house (about 1 ha). Here, first of all, the artist cut down a gloomy alley of firs and cypresses.
But high stumps were left, on which climbing roses then climbed. But soon the creepers grew so large that they closed and formed a vaulted flowering tunnel leading from the gate to the house.
Claude Oscar Monet: The Garden in Flower (1900)
Of course, over time, the stumps collapsed, and now the roses are supported by metal supports.
This place can be seen in the Master's paintings: the perspective of the alley, where there are lush flowers on the left, right and above, and on the path below their thin openwork shadows.
The area in front of the house, which was visible from the windows, the artist turned into a flower palette, mixing and matching paints. In Monet's garden, a colorful, fragrant carpet of flowers is divided into straight paths, like paints in a box.
Monet painted flowers and painted with flowers. As a truly talented person, he was both an outstanding artist and an outstanding landscape designer.
He took a great interest in gardening very seriously, bought special books and magazines, corresponded with nurseries, exchanged seeds with other flower growers.
woman in the garden
Fellow artists often visited Monet in Giverny. Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir, Pissarro and others have been here. Knowing about the owner's passion for flowers, friends brought him plants as a gift. Thus, Monet got, for example, tree-like peonies brought from Japan.
By this time, Claude Monet is becoming famous. The painting technique of this artist is different in that he did not mix paints. And he placed them side by side or layered one on top of the other with separate strokes. The life of Claude Monet flows calmly and pleasantly, his family and beloved wife are nearby, the paintings are well bought, the artist is enthusiastically doing what he loves.
"The onset of evening, Giverny." Guy Rose, 1910. San Diego Museum of Art
In 1893, Monet bought a plot of marshy land next to his, but located on the other side of the railway. There was a small stream here.
At this place, the artist, with the support of local authorities, created a pond, at first small and subsequently enlarged.
C. Monet. Lily Pond, 1899, National Gallery, London
Nymphaeums of different varieties were planted in the pond, weeping willows, bamboo, irises, rhododendrons and roses were planted along the banks.
1900. K. Monet. Japanese bridge
C. Monet. "Water Lilies", 1915
1922
There are several bridges across the pond, which has a very winding coastline. The most famous and largest of them is the Japanese bridge, entwined with wisteria. Monet painted it especially often, as you can see. In the spring, when the wisteria bloom, the feeling of being in some of the famous Japanese gardens, and a bamboo plantation, Japanese maples are planted nearby ... Although the garden seemed deliberately chaotic and unsystematic to us, it’s like time and gave it a sad charm, beauty untouched by time ...
Monet's water garden is strikingly different from the surrounding area, it is hidden behind the trees. You can get here only through a tunnel laid under the road.
Everyone who comes here involuntarily freezes, holding his breath, seeing the masterpiece created by the great artist, recognizing the plots of his world-famous paintings.
This is the bamboo I was talking about
Claude Monet drew inspiration from the water garden for 20 years. Monet wrote: “... the revelation of my fabulous, wonderful pond came to me.
Monet wrote: "I took the palette, and since that time I have almost never had another model." He first created paintings in nature, they gave reflections in the water surface of the pond, and then the artist transferred them to canvases.
Getting up every day at five in the morning, he would come here and paint in any weather and any season. Here he created more than a hundred paintings. At this time, Monet began to lose his sight ...
It was increasingly difficult for him to distinguish and write small details. The artist's paintings are gradually changing. Details and nuances are replaced by large strokes of paint that show the play of light and shadow. But even in paintings painted in this manner, we unmistakably guess familiar plots. The cost of paintings continues to rise ...
Claude Monet died at his home in Giverny in 1926. His stepdaughter Blanche took care of the garden. Unfortunately, during the Second World War, the garden fell into disrepair.
In 1966, the artist's son Michel Monet handed over the estate to the Academy of Fine Arts, which immediately began restoration of the house, and then the garden. Now the estate in Giverny is visited annually by half a million people.
Claude Monet lived a great happy life. He managed to do what he loved, to combine painting and gardening, to live in abundance. He was very happy in his personal life, he loved and was loved.
He knew how to give happiness and himself ...
Monet became famous during his lifetime, which is rare for artists. And now all over the world he remains one of the most famous and beloved artists. And we are especially pleased that this outstanding person is not only a great painter, but also our colleague and Teacher, Master of Landscape Art.
Every month, from spring to autumn, the garden looks different, but the best months to visit it are May and June, when rhododendrons bloom around the water lily pond, and wisteria plays with colors over the famous Japanese bridge.
But at this time, you will have to compete with crowds of people who want to photograph water lilies or just pose on the bridge.
The rooms inside the house are painted in different colors, exactly as they were during Monet's lifetime, and the walls of many rooms are still decorated with a wonderful collection of authentic Japanese prints, collected by Monet himself, including the wonderful works of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Not far from the garden, up Rue Claude Monet, is the Museum of American Art (April-October, Tuesday-Sunday, 10.00-18.00; cost €5.50).
The exposition of the museum is constantly updated on the basis of paintings from the collection of the Terra Art Fund, which includes paintings by John Singer Sargent and James Whistler, as well as works by American Impressionists who lived in a small village of artists near Claude Monet, in particular, paintings by Mary Cassatt, on creativity which was significantly influenced by Japanese painting.
And life goes on. The garden of Claude Monet still blooms, its flowers still cry with dew, without him ... their Creator
