In 2026, the centenary of the death of Claude Monet (1840-1926) offers a chance to look at his work in a new way. Rather than laying out a retrospective, the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris chooses a precise thread: the painter's relationship with time.

 

 

2026 will be the centenary of the death of the painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

To mark this anniversary, the Musée de l’Orangerie, , located in the Tuileries Garden, just a stone’s throw from the Louvre Museum, is organizing an exhibition focusing on his body of work’s relationship with time.

 

In the 1870s, Claude Monet was regarded as the impressionist artist par excellence, even though he only took part in five of the group’s exhibitions.

His work was not long in becoming synonymous with the “new painting”, as it seemed to encapsulate the movement’s characteristics to the full (usually practiced in the open air, with rapid brushstrokes and clear harmonies capturing momentary impressions), before culminating in one of its most unusual and remarkable extensions.

In the 1890s, with such series as Les cathédrales [The Cathedrals], Les meules [The Haystacks] and Les peupliers [The Poplars], the painter adopted an approach that almost seemed to be dissecting time, until the final testament of the Nymphéas [Water Lilies] series, which solved the seemingly insurmountable problem of fragmentation and so merged into the continuum.

 

A selection of almost forty of Monet’s paintings, mostly from the Musée d’Orsay’s and Musée Marmottan Monet’s collections, along with loans from French and international public and private collections, will highlight these successive phases, with particular emphasis on the Nymphéas.

 

From this new angle, and taking an objective approach requiring input from various research fields, the exhibition is set to reexamine a body of work whose significance, a hundred years on, is more fundamental than ever.

 

To complement this exhibition, be sure to visit Claude Monet’s house—which displays part of his work—and his extraordinary garden, located in Giverny.

 

 

Dates and opening hours:

From September 30th, 2026 to January 25th, 2027
Every day from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., except Tuesday.

Open late on Friday, until 9:00 pm.

The galleries close at 5:30 pm (8:30 pm on Friday).

 

Admission fees:

Full Price Exhibition: €12.50 online 

Reduced Price Exhibition: €10.00 

Evening Price Exhibition: €10.00 

Child Price Exhibition: €10.00 

-18 year olds, -26 year old residents of the EEA : Free

 

 

How to get to the Musée de l'Orangerie from the Hotel Jardin Le Brea?

Musée de l'Orangerie - Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde (côté Seine) 75001 Paris

- From the Hotel Jardin Le Bréa, take metro line 12 at Notre-Dame-des-Champs (a 5-minute walk) towards Mairie d'Aubervilliers and get off at Concorde station; the Musée de l'Orangerie is then a 4-minute walk away.

The total journey time from our hotel by metro is approximately 17 minutes.

 

 

Practical Information

https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en

 

 

Claude Monet
Soleil couchant, entre 1914 et 1926
Musée de l'Orangerie
© Musée de l'Orangerie, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt