Claude Monet painting for Imelda but did not have a chance to give her the money. The Philippine government seeks the return of the painting. "Le Bassin aux Nympheas", also known as "Japanese Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny", is part of Monet's famed Water Lilies series. Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from
Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet) the month. The first portrait that Monet made of his son was of the four-month-old "Jean Monet in His Cradle". Alongside Jean was a woman Julie Vellay, a companion of Camille Pissarro, rather than his mother. According to Mary Mathews Gedo, author of "Monet and his Muse: Camile Monet in the Artist's Life:" In 1868, after having left Paris to escape creditors and find more affordable housing, the three moved to Gloton, a small scenic village near Bennecourt. They were thrown out of the inn they were staying in for non-payment. Camille and Jean were able to stay with someone