The Musee de l’Orangerie (L’Orangerie Museum)

 

The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Famous for being the permanent home for eight Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet.

Monet’s Water Lilies

 

The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.