Water Lilies
Claude Monet (1840 to 1926), 1906
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 16 x 16 in, 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyMonet dug a pond at Giverny, planted it with lilies, and spent the last thirty years of his life painting its surface — nearly 250 times. Here there is no bank, no sky, no horizon: only the water, holding clouds and willows in reflection while the lilies float between worlds. Your eye can never quite decide whether it is looking down into depth or up into light. It is Impressionism dissolving toward abstraction, a whole cosmos found in a garden pond. Calm made visible.
- Maker
- Claude Monet (1840 to 1926)
- Date
- 1906
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- The Art Institute of Chicago · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00595
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 16 x 16 in | 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 20 in | 112 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 30 in | 75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,342 x 2,250 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 89, lights 158 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 258.93
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (27 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
- Neutrals lean toward green: the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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