Monet Water Lilies Coloring Page

Claude Monet painted about 250 pictures of the water lilies in his garden pond at Giverny, in France. He designed the garden himself, had the pond dug, filled it with lilies and built a little Japanese-style bridge across it.

He kept painting them for nearly 30 years, into his eighties, even as cataracts clouded his eyesight. His biggest water lily paintings are so long they wrap around two oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, so visitors feel like they're standing in the middle of the pond.