The portrait of the painter, coloured photography by Nadar (actually – Gaspard -Félix Tournachon) in 1899. Photography - Photo Researchers/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images
"Water Lilies (Lilies)" one of the series of 250 works of the painter devoted to this theme. This is an oil painting from 1897 from the Musée Marmottan in Paris. Photo. VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images.
The painter in his studio while creating one of the versions of "Lilies". Photo from the Musée de l'Orangerie. Photo. Underwood & Underwood/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
Édouard Manet "Boat", a painting from 1874, also known as "Portrait of Claude Monet painting in his studio in Argenteuil" and "Monet in a boat" from Neue Munich, Munich. Photo from the album "Impressionists" by Wilhelm Uhde. (The Phaidon Press, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, Vienna & London, 1937. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images
The painter in his garden at Giverny. Photo. Underwood & Underwood/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
"Haystacks, end of summer", an oil painting from 1891 from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Photo. VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images
On the right Claude Monet, on the left his wife Alice Hoschedé. Between them: Georges Durand-Ruel (art collector and art dealer) with his wife Joseph and Lilly (daughter of the American impressionist painter Theodore Earl Butler and Suzanne Hoschedé, Monet's stepdaughter) by the pond with water lilies in the garden at Giverny. Photo from the Durand-Ruel Archives collection. Photo. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
The “Beach in Pourville" ("La Plage de Pourville") from 1882; in 1906, bought at an auction by the German Art Society and placed in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Poznań; in 1943 evacuated by German troops to Saxony; taken over by the Red Army and transported to the USSR, where it was to be exhibited in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad; in 1956 the work returned to Poznań and is displayed in the local National Museum, in the same building where it was before the war. Photo. Wikimedia
Claude Monet, "Impression. Sunrise" ("Impression, Soleil Levant"), 1872. De Agostini/Getty Images