Monoprix x musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay and Monoprix are launching an exclusive collection to mark the museum's 40th anniversary.

Featuring a selection of accessible pieces, this collection of fashion and home goods draws inspiration from Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the Musée d'Orsay's collections and also reinterprets works by women artists.

Endless Variations of Reflections

Claude Monet
The Water Lily Pond, Green Harmony

In 1883, Monet moved to Giverny in Normandy. As a painter-gardener, he planted a water lily pond that became his primary source of inspiration, as seen in this painting, which is part of a series of nearly twenty works on the same subject. Both the bridge and the flowers are inspired by the Japanese prints he loved and collected. The lush vegetation and the infinite variations of reflections fill the surface of the painting, giving this garden great decorative power and an almost cosmic dimension.

Mysterious Contrasts

Berthe Morisot
The Hydrangea

Morisot depicts two young women in an interior adorned with a large hydrangea. One is carefully styling the other's hair. Morisot plays on the contrast between brown and blonde hair, and between cool and warm tones. Toward the end of her career, the artist shifted Impressionism toward a style of painting characterized by fluid, blended forms, lending this ordinary scene an air of mystery.