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Country: France
Location: 84 Rue Claude Monet, Giverny
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Size: 2.5 acres
Year Construction Started: 1883
Discover more about this garden here: https://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm#visit
Fun Facts:
- Monet was no fan of the sooty residue left on his lily pads each morning from passing trains. So he tasked a gardener with going out in a boat each day and polishing the lily pads before the day’s painting began.
- Monet painted his water lilies around 250 times.
- As Monet became blinder, he began to paint his gardens by memory. One historian noted that his later paintings “verged on the abstract, with colors bleeding into each other and a lack of rational shape and perspective.”