Monet water lily bottle stoppers

From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a beautiful st ofMonet’s waterlilies. Top your favorite bottle of wine or olive oil with the work of an Impressionist master! The handcrafted stoppers are fitted with ceramic tops bearing motifs adapted from Claude Monet's (French, 1840-1926) Water Lilies (1), housed in our collection. Monet moved to Giverny, France in 1883, purchasing his land with the intention of constructing something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint." The Japanese-styled garden that surrounded Monet's estate eventually became the source of inspiration for over 500 paintings, including those in his final series, Water Lilies. Art critic Charles Sanier wrote of the evocative works in La Revue Blanche (1900), "Glory to the artist who with the aid of a few lines and some dashes of color can so grandly synthesize the land where he lives.