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Musee de l'Orangerie


  • Address: Jardin Tuileries
  • Vicinity: Place de la Concorde
  • Arrondissement Municipal of 1st Rt, Louvre in Paris
  • Phone: 33 1 44 50 43 00
  • Type: Museums
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums
  • Museum Type: Congeries Repository

Musee de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, best known as the permanent home for eight Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet. The museum also contains works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaim Soutine and Maurice Utrillo. - AsNotedIn


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Objects of Art

WorkTypeCreatorAsNotedIn
Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel Painting
Waterlilies: The Clouds Painting

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1852/00/00 Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III Owner Designed by Firmin Bourgeois as a winter shelter for the orange trees that line the garden of the Tuileries Palace for Emperor Napoleon III, the greenhouse is completed by his successor, Ludovico Visconti. Orange
1923/06/00 Marie Laurencin Costume and Set Designer Marie Laurencin's canvas scene from "Les biches" is located in the Walter-Guillaume collection, Orangerie Museum. Laurencin designed it in the summer of 1923. Painted by a Russian prince, Laurencin liked the work and hung it in her living room. Les biches

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Particulars for Musee de l'Orangerie:
Area of Significance Art
Sight Category Building




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