Claude Monet

Painter and garden maker

French Impressionist who laid out the garden at Giverny and painted it for more than forty years.

Claude Monet was one of the founders of Impressionism. In 1883 he rented a house at Giverny in Normandy, which he later bought, and began to lay out the garden.

He dug a pond with water lilies and a Japanese bridge and employed gardeners. The water-lily pond became the subject of his great late paintings.

• Giverny