Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) — Claude Monet Postcard

The arched Japanese footbridge at Monet's Giverny garden curves over a pond of pink and white water lilies, weeping willows brushing the water on either side. Painted in 1899 as part of the first Water-Lily Bridge series and held today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this is the canvas that gave the world the image of Giverny — a foundational Impressionist motif compressed into deep greens, lavender reflections, and that famous green bridge. A serious art card to send to a gardener, to a friend who loves Japonisme, or simply to keep on the shelf as a small piece of Monet's most photographed garden. Explore the rest of our Oscar-Claude Monet postcards alongside the wider painting art postcards selection.