About Musée de l'Orangerie
The Orangerie was built in 1852 to shelter the Tuileries Garden's orange trees. In 1927 Claude Monet's Nymphéas — eight vast canvases of water lilies — were installed in two specially designed oval rooms, an environment Monet called 'the illusion of an endless whole'.
Below the Nymphéas, the Walter-Guillaume collection brings together masterworks by Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Modigliani, and Soutine.
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