Monet: Questioning Nature A special exhibition from the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie

Claude Monet was fascinated by the beauty of natural light in natural settings and dedicated his life to exploring it and seeking ways to express it. The landscape paintings that this giant among the Impressionists created utterly overturned traditional approaches to painting. His work became a means of communicating the worldview and poetic sentiments of a new era. Sylvie Patry, Chief Curator and Director for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at the Musée d’Orsay, supervised this exhibition, which combines works from the Musée d’Orsay, which has the world’s finest Monet collection, with works from collections in Japan to present a comprehensive view of Monet’s landscape paintings. Le Havre, Argenteuil, Vétheuil, Giverny, Venice: this exhibition explores Monet’s oeuvre, in each period and place. What did he see in each of his chosen places, how did he depict it, and what themes did he incorporate in his paintings? This close examination of his work reveals the distinctive characteristics of Monet’s landscape paintings.