Musée de l'Orangerie
Musée de l'Orangerie entrance | |
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| Established | 1852 |
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| Location | Place de la Concorde 75001 Paris France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′49.84326″N 2°19′21.13802″E / 48.8638453500°N 2.3225383389°E |
| Type | Art museum (Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings) |
| Director | Marie-Paule Vial |
| Public transit access | Concorde |
| Website | musee-orangerie.fr |
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 museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, and also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, and others.