Thick lily pads and water lilies floating on this still pool evoke images of Claude Monet's Impressionist paintings, which were made in his garden at Giverny only a few years prior to this photograph. As a photographer specializing in "documents for artists," Eugène Atget had to try and predict what types of images would be useful to artists as stand-ins for preliminary sketches. Atget may even have created this image in response to the popularity of Monet's numerous water lily paintings.