Monet Bridge and Water Lilies Bookmark

$22.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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An artful token from the Museum's gift shop. Our bookmark showcases a detail from a beloved Met masterpiece by Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). In 1893, the painter and passionate horticulturist purchased a plot of land with a pond near his home in Giverny. With the intention of transforming the acquisition into something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint," he built his famous water-lily garden, complete with a wooden footbridge over the pond. The Met's Bridge over a Pond of Water…