Monet Bridge and Water Lilies Bookmark*The Met Store Hot

An artful token from the Museum’s gift shop.

Our bookmark showcases a detail from a beloved Met masterpiece by Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). In 1893, the painter and passionate horticulturist purchased a plot of land with a pond near his home in Giverny. With the intention of transforming the acquisition into something “for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint,” he built his famous water-lily garden, complete with a wooden footbridge over the pond. The Met’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies is one of 12 views of the footbridge that he created in the summer of 1899.