Musée de l’Orangerie
Monet’s immense Water Lilies panels, displayed in two oval rooms in the Tuileries Garden.
The Musée de l'Orangerie sits in a former greenhouse built in 1852 to shelter the orange trees of the Tuileries Garden, at the corner nearest Place de la Concorde. It opened as a museum in 1927 to house the huge Water Lilies cycle that Claude Monet gave to the French state, shown in two oval rooms lit by daylight from above.
Besides the Water Lilies, the museum shows the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection, with paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Henri Rousseau, Soutine and others from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A renovation finished in 2006 brought daylight back to the Monet rooms, and a lower level now holds the collection and temporary shows.
Highlights
- Monet's eight Water Lilies panels in two oval rooms
- The Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection
- Works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani and Soutine
- A setting in the Tuileries Garden beside Place de la Concorde
