Water Lilie Monet's Water Lilies paintings are huge lake and water lilies. Monet painted them so they are suspended in a circle, and it feels like a day that passed or were the four seasons that can be discovered. At the Musée de l'Orangerie, they are suspended in two oval rooms There are 8. The grounds have been provided by the lily pond in his garden at Giverny, the color compositions culminated in the monumental painted for two rooms in the Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris.