# Water Lilies (Agapanthus), in Impressionism

Claude Monet painted this in about 1915–26, aged about 75. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> A skilled horticulturalist as well as an artist, Claude Monet spent the last 30 years of his life painting the private garden he designed and helped cultivate at his home in Giverny in northern France. The resultant canvases are notable for their varied motifs, formats, and sizes.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1915–26
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 204.9 x 430.3 x 6 cm (80 11/16 x 169 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 201.3 x 425.6 cm (79 1/4 x 167 9/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960.81
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Claude Monet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-monet), French, 1840–1926

Monet grew up in Le Havre, where Eugène Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors. In Paris he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille, and his Impression, Sunrise gave the Impressionist movement its name in 1874.

10 works in the collection.

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