Saturday evening was the national Nuit des Musées, during which museums and galleries all around France were free to the public. It was a lovely mild evening and I queued 20min with my friend Jenny to visit Musée de l'Orangerie. For any art fans out there, this is the gallery which houses Monet's Waterlillies in two specially designed oval rooms.


They are magnificent, and the natural lighting from the skylights was just perfect.
The gallery had a host of other gorgeous paintings too, some old favourites...
...and some new discoveries...
And the mirrored frame on this Marie Lescaurin is so pretty.

There was also some lovely reproductions of Paul Guillaume's Parisian apartment. Monsieur Guillaume 'discovered' many of the big name painters and exhibited them in his galleries (saving some of the finest pieces for his own walls as you can see.)
can you spot me?
bisous xox And have a good week one and all!