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The
13th place I would like to introduce for this week is The
Musée de l'Orangerie.
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
The museum is best known for the eternal home of eight large “Water Lilies”
murals by Claude Monet, and also has works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse,
Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred
Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, and others.
The building was built by Napoleon III in 1852 to protect the citrus trees of the Tuileries garden from the cold winter.
The building was built by architect Firmin Bourgeois, and he built it using glass on the south side of the building, Seine River for sunlight to the trees, but almost completely windowless on the opposite north side to protect the citrus trees from the cold winds.
The main entrances on the east and west side of the building were
decorated by architect Louis Visconti, who is also famous for his renovation on
the Louvre. After the Fall of the Empire in 1870 and the fire at the Tuileries
Palace in 1871, the building became a property of the State.
The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Musée de l'Orangerie are as follows.
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