Musée de l'Orangerie
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The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, and also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, and others.
Musée de l'Orangerie entrance
The name of the museum inscribed above the door
Two of the eight Claude Monet Nymphéas on display in the museum
The Water Lilies – The Clouds, 1920–1926, Claude Monet, one of Monet's eight large oil-on-canvas murals displayed in two oval rooms in the museum
Tuileries Garden
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The Tuileries Garden is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution. Since the 19th century, it has been a place for Parisians to celebrate, meet, stroll and relax.
Grande Allée of the Tuileries Garden, looking towards the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe
Plan for the palace and gardens by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, 1576–1579
Garden of Louis XIII in 1649–51
Tuileries Garden of Le Nôtre in the 17th century, looking west toward the future Champs Élysées, engraving by Perelle