{"product_id":"water-lily-pond-japanese-bridge-1900-claude-monet-fine-art-print","title":"Water Lily Pond, Japanese Bridge (1900)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"presh-product\" data-theme=\"monet-water-lily-pond-1900\" data-presh-undeniable=\"1\" style=\"--accent:#2f5a46;--accent-2:#b65f6e;--ground:#f3efe6;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA Japanese-style footbridge over a pond he made himself. Claude Monet, \u003cem\u003eWater Lily Pond\u003c\/em\u003e, Giverny, 1900, one of the Japanese bridge paintings that turned his garden into his subject for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"look\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to look at it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart on the bridge and follow its arch from left to right. Then let your eye fall to the water: pads and pink blossoms float in bands that shrink as they recede, which is how you feel the depth of the pond. Look for the willow and the reeds reflected in the gaps between the pads. There is no sky in the picture at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"why\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy this one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA garden built to be painted.\u003c\/strong\u003e In 1893, three years after buying his property at Giverny, Monet began turning the marshy ground there into a pond. He added exotic and local plantings, including the water lilies, and built a Japanese-style wooden footbridge at its narrow end. Then he painted what he had made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA series, not a single view.\u003c\/strong\u003e In 1899 and 1900 he made 18 similar versions of this motif. What links them, says the Art Institute, is the way the lilies mingle with reflections of the plants around the pool. Monet signed and dated this one, upper left, 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe road to the Water Lilies.\u003c\/strong\u003e The bridge paintings are where the pond first fills the frame. Later the bridge left the frame and the water itself became the subject, in the Water Lilies paintings and, in the end, the murals at the Orangerie in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThis canvas\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas, 89.8 × 101 cm (35⅜ × 39¾ in), 1900, Giverny. The canvas hangs in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"dossier\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"presh-dossier\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFact gap.\u003c\/strong\u003e \"The Japanese Bridge\" is not one painting. This 1900 canvas, catalogued in Chicago as \u003cem\u003eWater Lily Pond\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of 18 versions Monet painted in 1899–1900, and it is not the Met's taller 1899 picture. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/monet-japanese-bridge-1900-one-of-eighteen\"\u003eSee what the record says\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"sizes\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSizes vs the original\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e8×9\u003c\/span\u003e a desk or shelf piece, the bridge in your hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e16×18\u003c\/span\u003e about half the real canvas, the pond reads from across a room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e24×27\u003c\/span\u003e about two thirds of its true size (35⅜×39¾), for a wall that wants water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"paper\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper \u0026amp; ship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchival matte fine art paper, no bleed, true 8:9 proportion, the same shape as the canvas. Printed from the public domain photograph of the painting without remastering the color. Made to order, rolled in a tube. A natural oak or soft black hairline frame both suit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"faq\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuick answers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is the Japanese bridge?\u003c\/strong\u003e In Monet's water garden at Giverny, France, which he made himself starting in 1893.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this the same as Monet's Water Lilies?\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the same pond. This 1900 painting shows the bridge; the later Water Lilies series looks straight down at the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this an original painting?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. It is an archival reproduction of the 1900 canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs the image public domain?\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes. Monet died in 1926, and the photograph we print from was released by its holding museum as public domain (CC0). No museum endorses this shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"credit\"\u003eClaude Monet · Water Lily Pond, 1900 · Image: public domain (CC0)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Presh","offers":[{"title":"8×9 in","offer_id":49943585554587,"sku":"PRESH-PD-MONET-WATERLILYPOND1900-8X9","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×18 in","offer_id":49943585587355,"sku":"PRESH-PD-MONET-WATERLILYPOND1900-16X18","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24×27 in","offer_id":49943585620123,"sku":"PRESH-PD-MONET-WATERLILYPOND1900-24X27","price":168.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/0085\/3915\/files\/Claude_Monet_-_Water_Lily_Pond_-_1933.441_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg?v=1793076795","url":"https:\/\/heypresh.com\/products\/water-lily-pond-japanese-bridge-1900-claude-monet-fine-art-print","provider":"Presh","version":"1.0","type":"link"}