Water Lilies by Claude Monet

After losing both his second wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean, in 1911 and 1914 respectively, French Impressionist artist Claude Monet sought consolation by embarking upon a great new work, a series of massive Water Lilies panels (1914-1917). Water Lilies (Nymphéas in French) is a series of approx. 250 oil paintings. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.