Claude Monet« Je passe ma vie à peindre »

Fifty Monet paintings from the museum’s own collection, rehung through six rooms of the Impressionist galleries for the centenary of his death.

The new route follows Monet’s career from the mid-1860s to the early 1900s with two-thirds of the museum’s 76 Monets. Five focus displays share findings from recent restorations and laboratory studies with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, among them La Pie (1868–69).

They show a painter wrestling with concrete problems, such as a snow scene, a huge canvas painted outdoors or a river thawing fast, and working less spontaneously than he appears to.

Full details at musee-orsay.fr