Paris, Part 2: Les Tuileries and L'Orangerie - Monet's Waterlilies

We walked through Les Tuileries park, with the gold-tipped obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in front of us, towards L'Orangerie, a museum new to us.

 

L'Orangerie has two rooms designed specifically to showcase 8 huge Monet waterlily paintings. The rooms are oval and lit by huge skylights, so you can walk round and round in natural light, admiring the 4 long, dreamy works in each room.

There were other rooms, too. I liked this Renoir of a bowl of peaches:

 

And also Renoir's "Young Girls at the Piano"

 

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