The Orangerie Museum
This museum is located in the Tuilerie gardens and is a very popular attraction, so one usually has to line up outside the museum to enter it. Claude Monet chose this museum to display his 8 very large format water lily paintings, known as the Nympheas. On the upper gallery, there are two large oval rooms that house the Nympheas. The oval rooms were custom designed so that 8 huge paintings of the water lilies fit exactly on the walls. The paintings show how the water lilies look during the four stations of the year. Each painting measures 6 x 2 meters.This museum also has the Jean Walter and Paul Gillaume Collection, which has 144 paintings by Cezanne, Renoir, Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Soutine.
Paul Gillaume was a famous art dealer who sold the art of the impressionists and post-impressionists. He collected their art also. When he died at the age of 42, his beautiful widow Domenica married the mining tycoon Jean Walter and later left the art collection to the museum. You will notice that many of these artists painted Domenica.
Paul Gillaume was a famous art dealer who sold the art of the impressionists and post-impressionists. He collected their art also. When he died at the age of 42, his beautiful widow Domenica married the mining tycoon Jean Walter and later left the art collection to the museum. You will notice that many of these artists painted Domenica.
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