Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet

Gift of Mrs. Harvey Kaplan

"Water Lily Pond" by Claude Monet (1917–19) Oil on canvas.

Commentary

"Water Lily Pond" by Claude Monet (1917–19) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Its painted surface guides your eye through color, brushwork, and contrast rather than through narrative alone. Themes to n otice include Impressionism, painting. This piece is held in the source collection's Painting and Sculpture of Europe collection. Claude Monet is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. It is associated with the Impressionism period. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as painting, which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Oil on canvas) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (130.2 × 201.9 cm (51 1/2 × 79 1/2 in.); Framed: 147.4 × 218.5 × 9.9 cm (58 × 86 × 3 7/8 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include Impressionism, painting. Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97933

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data