Located in the
Tuileries Garden, since 1984 the museum has been home to the Jean Walter and
Paul Guillaume collection, which has been sold to the state on very generous
terms. This collection includes 144 paintings from the late nineteenth and the
first half of the twentieth century (Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Derain,
Soutine, Modigliani, Utrillo, Douanier Rousseau ...). It joined the eight
immense compositions of Water Lilies that Monet offered to France in 1922 and
which have been installed since 1927 in two large oval rooms specially fitted
out in the building, on the indications of the painter to receive them.