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Monet at Musée de l’Orangerie

The Musee de l’Orangerie holds the single most ambitious thing Claude Monet ever made: the great Nympheas cycles, eight vast mural panels installed in two oval rooms in the Tuileries gardens in Paris. There is nothing else quite like them, and no reproduction of a detail can prepare you for standing inside the finished work.

A gift to France, installed after his death

Monet offered the decorative panels to the French state in the aftermath of the First World War, and the project was shaped over years in conversation with his friend Georges Clemenceau. He worked on the canvases in a purpose-built studio at Giverny, revising them repeatedly and refusing to let them go while he could still improve them. They were installed at the Orangerie and opened to the public in 1927, a few months after Monet’s death in December 1926. He never saw them in the setting he had spent years imagining.

The rooms were designed so that the paintings run continuously around the walls, lit from above by daylight, with no corner to interrupt the water. Morning, clouds, green reflections, the setting sun and the weeping willows follow one another as a single sequence. The museum also holds the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection of modern painting downstairs. Every Monet subject shown below can be commissioned as a hand-painted oil reproduction.

7 Monet works from Musée de l’Orangerie

These works come from the most immersive body of painting Monet produced, and they behave differently from ordinary landscapes on a wall. There is no horizon, no fixed viewpoint and often no bank; the eye simply enters the water. That makes them extraordinary at large sizes, particularly on a long uninterrupted wall behind a sofa or a bed, where the panoramic proportion can do its work. Blues, greens and violets dominate, with rose and gold where the light lands. Give them space and even, indirect light. Browse the available sizes when you have chosen a panel.

Official collection: Musée de l’Orangerie