Claude Monet was a great admirer of Japanese aesthetics and culture, including woodblock prints (Russell 110). Many of these prints featured Japanese gardens or other landscapes, which would lead Monet to design a Japanese garden of his own (Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny). In 1893 on his property in Giverny, France, Monet decided to cultivate a Japanese-inspired water garden that included a footbridge over a pond (Brettell). This garden and the Japanese footbridge became the subjects of several works of art, such as The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond: Water Irises), completed in 1900. This particular painting of the footbridge has an asymmetrical composition featuring the dirt path leading to the bridge from the side. Asymmetrical