Paris Tours - Discover France

You’ll stroll through the beautiful Tuileries Garden to reach the Orangerie. Established as a museum in the early 20^th century, it became home to art that no longer fit in Paris’s other museums. The stand-out features, among all of the work on display, are the series of various water lilies Monet granted to France thanks to his friendship with George Clemenceau which have a permanent home in the Orangerie. The expansive collection of 19^th century and early 20^th century paintings features works by other renowned Impressionists and their disciples. You’ll come to face to face with Cezanne’s studies of fruits and flowers, you’ll learn about the exotic style of Matisse’s seductive portraits, and you’ll trace Picasso’s phases through his interpretations of nude models. Additionally, you’ll learn the secrets behind works by artists including Modigliani, Renoir, and Utrillo. By the end, you’ll wonder why any visitor in Paris would pass by this world-class collection of French art.

Highlights Generally Include (if artwork is not on loan or being restored etc.):

Monet’s Water Lilies

History of the Orangerie/ Collections Walter Guillaume

Renoir (Portraits, Piano Class, Claude Renoir, etc…)

Monet at Argenteuil

Cézanne, Still Life and Landscapes

Picasso, Figuration Around 1900, Cubism and Surrealism

Matisse’s Odalisques, the Fauves

Laurencin, a Lady Painter

Derain, Artists After the War

Utrillo and Montmartre

Le Douanier Rousseau