In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be ...

FONDATION CLAUDE MONET During the decades he lived and painted in Giverny, right up until he died in 1926, Monet never stopped transforming and landscaping his two gardens: The first, the Clos ...

I can’t pretend I know exactly what Claude Monet was thinking as he stood at his outdoor easel in Giverny during the summer of 1914. Thousands of French soldiers had already died in the trenches ...