The Japanese FootbridgePiece count: 202 Material: Baltic Birch, 1 4" Description In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hosched and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it. But it was only toward