The Museum of the Orangery, (Musée de l'Orangerie) is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens near the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large murals of Claude Monet's Water Lilies and also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaim Soutine, Maurice Utrillo and other.
Napoleon III had the Orangerie built in 1852, to preserve the citrus trees of the Tuileries garden from the winter cold.
The building was built by the architect Firmin Bourgeois (1786-1853).
Bourgeois built the glass Orangerie on the (south) side of the Seine to give light to the trees, but the opposite (north) side is almost completely windowless to protect the citrus trees from cold winds.
Museum of the Orangery
Address: Jardin Tuileries, 75001
Phone: +33144504300
Site:
https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/Location inserted by
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