The Musée de l'Orangerie is a museum in Paris dedicated to Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. It is located within the Jardins des Tuileries, near the Seine, and is housed in a former orangery, hence the name Orangerie. Becoming a museum in 1921, the Musée de l'Orangerie is particularly famous and appreciated for being the home of Claude Monet's series of paintings depicting the popular Water Lilies: two rooms of the museum are dedicated to these long painted panels. This series of paintings was donated to France by the painter Claude Monet shortly after the armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol of peace. They were exhibited in the Orangerie in 1927, a few months after the artist's death, as he had requested. In 1952, André Masson called it the "Sistine Chapel of Impressionism". The Musée de l'Orangerie also houses the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collections, with masterpieces by artists such as Paul Cézanne (including the work "Portrait of Madame Cézanne"), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani (including "The Young Apprentice"), Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (with various works such as "Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano" and "Nude Woman in a Landscape"), and Henri Rousseau. Furthermore, it is now the venue for important temporary exhibitions, which further enrich the museum visit experience.