A pale turquoise footbridge arching over a pond lined with tall grasses and filled with petal-pink and butter-yellow waterlilies spans this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with touches of vibrant color. In the top third of the composition, the shallowly arched bridge nearly touches the top edge of the canvas, and it extends off each side. The shadows on the bridge are painted with eggplant purple. Bands of waterlilies gently zigzag into the distance on the surface of the water. The spring and emerald-green grasses growing along the banks fill the space around and…

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The Japanese Footbridge

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

1899

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 81.3 x 101.6 cm (32 x 40 in.) ; framed: 101 x 120.7 x 7.6 cm (39 3/4 x 47 1/2 x 3 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Gift of Victoria Nebeker Coberly, in memory of her son John W. Mudd, and Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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