Les jardins de Claude Monet à Giverny

That's a garden, I tell you, magnificent! I'll take it - but the people have to go and someone else has to pay the gardeners 🤪.

"Les jardins et la maison de Claude Monet" is the name given to the former residence of the impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926), which is managed by the Fondation Claude Monet in the French village of Giverny in the Eure department (Normandy).

After the artist rented the house, he first created an ornamental garden behind it, called the "clos normand", which he covered with a profusion of flowers. In November 1890, he was able to buy the house and the property. In 1893, Monet expanded the garden, which was now being tended by six gardeners, to include a small piece of land on the Epte. In the years that followed, the so-called jardin d'eau, or water garden, was created there, with a water lily pond spanned by a bridge based on the Japanese model, which Monet often used as a motif.

Monet loved gardening, read specialist literature, and visited garden exhibitions. The garden not only served as a place of relaxation, but also inspired him for his paintings.Read more