Where can you see Claude Monet in Paris?

At the Musée d'Orsay: The Saint-Lazare Station, Rouen Cathedral series and Poppies. At the Musée de l'Orangerie: The Water Lilies. At the Musée Marmottan Monet: Impression, Sunrise. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Claude Monet's most famous work in Paris?

The Water Lilies, of 1914 to 1926, at the Musée de l'Orangerie. Eight curved canvases, some two metres high and nearly a hundred long in all, in two oval rooms lit from above, designed with the painter. You stand inside the pond.

When and where was Claude Monet born?

On 14 November 1840, at Paris, France. Claude Monet died on 5 December 1926, at Giverny, France, aged about 86.

What is Claude Monet known for?

His Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name. Painted the Water Lilies at Giverny for thirty years. Gave the great Water Lilies to France after the war of 1914 to 1918. Claude Monet was a French painter, of Impressionism.

Painter, 1840 to 1926

Claude Monet

No painter is better seen in Paris than Monet. His stations and cathedrals are at the Orsay, the picture that named Impressionism is at the Marmottan, and two whole rooms of the Orangerie were built for his Water Lilies.

Born: 1840, Paris, France
Died: 1926, Giverny, France
Movement: Impressionism
In Paris: 5 works in 3 museums

Where to see Claude Monet in Paris

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Musée d'Orsay3 works

The Saint-Lazare Station
1877
Steam, glass and iron: a locomotive coming in under the roof of the Paris station. One of a dozen views he painted of it in a few months.
Rouen Cathedral series
1892 to 1894
The same west front in morning sun, in full light, in grey weather. The Orsay has five of the thirty, hung together.
Poppies
1873
A woman and a child walking down through a field of red poppies near Argenteuil, shown at the first Impressionist exhibition.

Musée de l'Orangerie1 work

The Water Lilies
1914 to 1926
Eight curved canvases, some two metres high and nearly a hundred long in all, in two oval rooms lit from above, designed with the painter. You stand inside the pond.

Musée Marmottan Monet1 work

Impression, Sunrise
1872
The harbour of Le Havre in mist, an orange sun and its reflection. The picture that named the movement. The museum, in the 16th arrondissement, also holds the largest collection of Monet's work in the world.

The life of Claude Monet

Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and grew up in Le Havre, on the Channel coast. In 1874 he and his friends held their own exhibition, and a critic mocking his Impression, Sunrise called them all Impressionists. Monet spent his life chasing what light does to a thing from one hour to the next, and painted the same subject over and over to catch it: haystacks, poplars, the front of Rouen Cathedral.

In 1883 he settled at Giverny, in Normandy, and made the garden and the lily pond that he painted for the last thirty years of his life. The day after the armistice of 1918 he offered the nation a set of vast Water Lilies. He died at Giverny in 1926, and the Orangerie opened with them the next year.

What to know

His Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name
Painted the Water Lilies at Giverny for thirty years
Gave the great Water Lilies to France after the war of 1914 to 1918

Born: 14 November 1840, Paris, France
Died: 5 December 1926, Giverny, France

Claude Monet: common questions

Where can you see Claude Monet in Paris?: At the Musée d'Orsay: The Saint-Lazare Station, Rouen Cathedral series and Poppies. At the Musée de l'Orangerie: The Water Lilies. At the Musée Marmottan Monet: Impression, Sunrise. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Claude Monet's most famous work in Paris?: The Water Lilies, of 1914 to 1926, at the Musée de l'Orangerie. Eight curved canvases, some two metres high and nearly a hundred long in all, in two oval rooms lit from above, designed with the painter. You stand inside the pond.
When and where was Claude Monet born?: On 14 November 1840, at Paris, France. Claude Monet died on 5 December 1926, at Giverny, France, aged about 86.
What is Claude Monet known for?: His Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name. Painted the Water Lilies at Giverny for thirty years. Gave the great Water Lilies to France after the war of 1914 to 1918. Claude Monet was a French painter, of Impressionism.