He focused on depicting the same scene but at different times of day and during various weather conditions from 1890 on.
Claude Monet was an advocate of the Impressionist movement throughout his whole career. The movement was even named after one of his works called Impression, Sunrise. To capture the change of light, Monet liked to paint outdoors, a practice he was introduced to by his mentor Eugène Boudin. The artist Gustave Courbet once visited Claude Monet while he was working on his large painting Women in the Garden and said that Monet needed the conditions of the light to be perfect even when painting the leaves. He focused on depicting the same scene but at different times of day and during various weather conditions from 1890 on.