Claude Monet - The Water-Lily Pond 1899, 88 x 92 cm. Monet moved to Giverny in 1883. In 1893 he acquired a small pond and created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style, copied from a print that hung in his dining room. In 1899, when the vegetation of the water garden was at its most luxuriant, he began a series of views across the pond to the arching bridge. Here the garden is shown in slanting summer afternoon light, in cool harmonies of green and mauve balanced by bright yellow reflections and vivid red and white water lilies.