"Les Nymphéas" at the "Musée de l’Orangerie" (Paris)

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During the last thirty years of his life, Monet has been trying without respite to find out the mystery of the light of  "Nympheas’’. On the edge of his pond, and in the big workroom specially built for this occasion, he made fly into pieces the rules of landscape painting, opening the way to modern artists.

 
On the day following the armistice of the 11th of November 1918, Monet suggested to his friend Georges Clemenceau to do a donation to France with the panels of Nymphéas « as a bunch of flowers in honour to the victorious war and the won peace ». His sight problems made the realisation of this testamentary work awfully painful, and the painter worked on it until the end.
In 1927, a few months after he died, the Nymphéas where installed at the "Musée de L’Orangerie’’, in the "Jardin des Tuileries’’ (Paris). Forgotten for a long time and badly exposed, they can again be admired by visitors in a panoramic room specially made for this purpose.
 
After having visited the water garden, contemplating "Nymphéas’’ at the "Musée de l’Orangerie’’ is a fundamental stage before immersing oneself in the poetic and luminous universe of the Master of Impressionism.
 
Virtual visit : www.musee-orangerie.fr

Useful informations
Musée de l’Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries
75001 Paris.
Tél. : 01 44 77 80 07
e-mail : information-orangerie@culture.gouv.fr
Full price : 7,5 €      
Reduced price : 5,5 €
Ticket for both Musée de l'Orangerie and Musée d'Orsay :    one price : 13 €