The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris & not far from the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay.
Napoleon III had the Orangerie built in 1852, to store the citrus trees of the Tuileries Palace gardens from the cold in the winter.
After the Fall of the Empire in 1870, the Orangerie became a property of the State, which continued to use the Orangerie in its original function as well as for public events.
After World War I, the State gave the building to the Under-Secretariat of State for Fine Arts along with another building, the Jeu de Paume, to provide a space for living artists to display their works.The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris & not far from the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay.
Napoleon III had the Orangerie built in 1852, to store the citrus trees of the Tuileries Palace gardens from the cold in the winter.
After the Fall of the Empire in 1870, the Orangerie became a property of the State, which continued to use the Orangerie in its original function as well as for public events.
After World War I, the State gave the building to the Under-Secretariat of State for Fine Arts along with another building, the Jeu de Paume, to provide a space for living artists to display their works....more