If the tourist likes to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, he must visit the Orangerie Museum. There are paintings by Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir, Utrillo, Gauguin, Rousseau, Sisley, Picasso, Modigliani and other artists. Pearl collection - the famous "Water Lilies" by Monet.

Claude Monet wrote decades pond with water lilies, which he planted in his garden in Giverny. Monet said - once he realized how magical it looks like a pond, and since then almost nothing else wrote. He created about 250 paintings in this series. By the end of his life Monet was almost blind due to cataracts in both eyes, but continued to write a pond with water lilies. In 1922 he finished the eight large-size panels, which depicted the pond at different times of the day. The panel, which the artist considered his spiritual testament, he offered a gift to the French state after the First World with the condition never to share pictures. For their location was chosen in a former greenhouse in the Tuileries Gardens.

This greenhouse was built in 1852, designed by Firmin Bourgeois for the orange trees of the Tuileries. The building is an architectural twin built the year before, and stood in another corner of the garden courts for ball games - Jeu de Paume. And the Jeu de Paume and the Orangerie museums began, but did not use a variety srazu.Teplitsa she visited and the warehouse, and the exam room, and the place of accommodation of mobilized soldiers. Exhibitions in it, too organized - mainly machinery, animals, plants.

To place here "Water Lilies", required modifications of the building. The chief architect of the Louvre Camille Lefebvre with the help of the reconstruction plans developed by Monet. Now "Water Lilies" occupy two connected oval hall, which the museum is called the Sistine Chapel of Impressionism. Top pours smooth natural light, the whole room is designed in pale shades of gray on the walls - the riot of colors. People sit on the couch in the middle of the hall and behold, then go explore another part of the museum's collection, and then come back again admire the "water lilies".