In art history, few names are as evocative as Claude Monet. The French artist is known for his swirling paintings of rivers, gardens, flowers and fields that would come to define the Impressionist ...

Hokusai is known for his magnificent print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” 1831, but it’s his “Large Flower” series, created around the same time (1833-34) that influenced Monet.

Today, Monet’s flower garden is seen to evoke some bucolic ... Monet’s Giverny studio was filled with hundreds of Japanese prints. His attempts to emulate the composition of Utamaro and ...

Because Monet never sold “Waterlilies,” he was able to work on it on-and-off over time — repainting over blossoms, moving ...

Monet was an avid collector of Japanese prints, and it is these that inspired ... The other part of Monet's garden is Le Clos Normand, a flower garden in front of his house, which both contrasts ...