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Offered to the French State by the painter Claude Monet on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol for peace, the Water Lilies are installed according to plan at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death.
The Musée de l’Orangerie houses 8 of the great Nymphéas [Water Lilies] compositions by Monet created from various panels assembled side by side. These compositions are all the same height (6.5 ft/1.97m) but differ in length so that they could be hung across the curved walls of two egg-shaped rooms.
The Musée de l'Orangerie (English: Orangery Museum) 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 Orangerie Museum or Musée de la Orangerie , is the museum that houses a series of large paintings of Water Lilies, masterpieces offered by Monet himself to France in 1922.
Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.
Musée de l'Orangerie is the third third impressionist museum in Paris with Musée d'Orsay and Musée Marmottan. Set in Les Tuileries Gardens, it displays the Water Lilies by Claude Monet and the rich Walter Guillaume impressionist collection. An intimate museum centrally located and a good alternative to the crowded Musée d'Orsay. Paris Museums.
Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist's sole source of inspiration.
