The Musée Marmottan Monet is a Paris museum located in the 16th arrondissement, near the Jardin du Ranelagh. It is a museum of French impressionism and nineteenth century art. The Marmottan Monet Museum was born from the donation made by the art historian Paul marmottan, who donated his palace and its collections of Renaissance and 18th and 19th century art to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. To this already vast artistic heritage were added several collections, including the numerous canvases by Claude Monet, donated by his son in 1966. Thanks to this precious enrichment, the museum has reached the largest collection in the world of Monet's works of art. Among the masterpieces of Monet exhibited in the museum, "Nymphéas" and "Impression, soleil levant" stand out, perhaps among the most important works of the artist, as it is from this painting that the name of the Impressionist movement derived. of other important French nineteenth-century authors, such as Boudin, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Morisot, Manet and Gauguin. Fondation Denis et Annie Rouart and in the basement are Monet's masterpieces.