Giverny was the French town where Monet lived, gardened, and found the subjects for his famous Water Lilies series.
Monet moved to Giverny in Normandy in 1883 and remained there for the rest of his life. He rented a house with a large garden, later buying the property and transforming it into an intensely planned artistic environment. The estate included the flower-filled Clos Normand and, across a railway line, a water garden supplied by a diversion of the Ru, a stream connected to the Epte River.
Monet began painting his water-lily subjects in 1899, concentrating on the pond, reflections, Japanese bridge, and surrounding vegetation. He ultimately produced more than 250 Water Lilies paintings, often treating the water’s surface as a world of changing color and light rather than a conventional landscape. Giverny is sometimes confused with Rouen, Vétheuil, or Argenteuil, all places associated with Monet’s career, but the water-lily pond was specifically the garden he created at Giverny.