OIL PAINTING: Misty morning on the Seine sunrise, 1892
In his later paintings Monet allowed his vision of light to dissolve the real structures of his subjects. To do this Monet chose simple matter, making several series of studies of the same object at different times of day or year: haystacks, morning views of the Seine, the Gare Saint-Lazare (1876), poplars (begun 1890), the Thames, the celebrated group of Rouen Cathedral (1892), and the last great lyrical series of water lilies (1899, and 1904), painted in his own garden at Giverny