Orangerie Museum
The Musée de l’Orangerie is a purpose-built greenhouse turned museum, and its most celebrated paintings depend on that original function. Napoleon III had the Orangerie built in 1852 to shelter the Tuileries garden’s citrus trees in winter, replacing storage in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre. Architect Firmin Bourgeois (1786–1853) designed it with glass on the south side facing the Seine for light, while the north side is almost windowless to shield the trees from cold winds. In the building’s life as an imperial orangery, details were given ceremonial weight: Louis Visconti (1791–1853) decorated the main entrances on the east and west sides, and the column tops—bearing cornucopias, plants, and ears of corn—were sculpted by Charles Gallois-Poignant. After the Fall of the Empire in 1870 and the fire at the Tuileries Palace in 1871, the Orangerie became a State property and continued as a venue for public events until 1922. …
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