Claude Monet posing beside his Water Lilies paintings. This historical photograph shows French Impressionist painter Claude Monet standing in his light-filled

Claude Monet posing beside his Water Lilies paintings. This historical photograph shows French Impressionist painter Claude Monet standing in his light-filled studio at Giverny, surrounded by enormous canvas panels from his famous Water Lilies series, known in French as Nymphéas. He worked on the s…