The French Impressionist painter Claude Monet surrounded himself with natural beauty in his Giverny garden. Reproducing one of his many Water Lilies paintings, our Monet journal sets his signature artwork against a letter he sent to Berthe Morisot, a fellow Impressionist. Original Art: Water Lilies by Claude Monet and handwritten letter to Berthe Morisot. Era: Late 1800s. Region: Giverny, France.