Historical Photos To Blow Your Mind: New Release!

Waterlilies

French artist Claude Monet poses with his iconic water lilies around 1923. Monet, the founder of French Impressionist painting, spent more than 20 years of his life painting the flowers. Unsurprisingly, Monet’s garden was very important to him.

He rented and purchased a house and gardens in Giverny, and worked to build up the gardens. He also bought the surrounding land when his paintings took off to build a greenhouse and second studio. He wrote daily instructions to his gardener with precise designs and layouts. In 1893, he purchased some additional land with a water meadow, and the rest is history.