MONET'S WATERLILIES SPECIAL - Giverny & Orangerie Museum Private Tour
- Duration: 5 Hours (approx.)
A BIT OF HISTORY: Welcome to the house and garden of the most famous painter in the world. Giverny is here to illustrate the passion of flowers, colors and artistic composition of the father of Impressionism, Claude Monet. And he does deserve his reputation! Hundreds of paintings worth millions of dollars were inspired by the thousands of flowers you are about to discover.
The collection of the Musée de l’Orangerie retraces certain unique angles of 20th-century art, from the large-scale Water Lilies decoration by Claude Monet, the ultimate and founding masterpiece of abstraction and immersive works, to the painting collection of Paul Guillaume and Domenica Walter, characterized by the tension between modernity and figuration, from Renoir to Matisse, from Cézanne to Picasso, from Douanier Rousseau to Modigliani and Soutine.
ABOUT YOUR TOUR: Hotel pick and drop off included. A lunch break is planned in the schedule, and will be at your own expense. Enjoy the local insight of your expert guide during the day. You will get to know the personality of the man behind the painter who fathered the renewal of painting, you will get to stand right by where Monet was painting at the peak of his glory, and you will get to explore the lovely village of Giverny that became home to the most wonderful band of painters ever!
MEETING PLACE: Meet your private local guide and your chauffeured vehicle at your accommodation address in central Paris.
LOCAL INSIGHT: We will start this tour early in the morning to reach Giverny at opening time, before the crowds arrive in Monet's house. This way, we'll be able to enjoy the calm and relaxing atmosphere of Monet's garden before heading to the Orangerie Museum in the afternoon where the Waterlilies are on display since their creation in 1919 !