This picture is a fantasy, because Camille Monet never lived at Giverny.  Claude Monet married Camille Doncieux in 1870. They lived first in Argenteuil, then in 1878 moved further out of Paris to Vétheuil. A year later Camille became ill and died. Monet married again and moved to Giverny, in Vernon. There he created his famous gardens and the water-lily ponds - this painting shows the grand avenue leading to the front door, with Camille in it, as she so easily might have been.

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