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Monet's Water Lilies (Orangerie)

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Monet's Water Lilies (Orangerie)

The vast curved murals that wrap around two oval rooms/Art & Sculpture

Claude Monet donated eight large Water Lilies murals to the French state, installed in two oval rooms at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris in 1927. The paintings together stretch over 90 m in total length and were the culmination of 30 years of painting his water garden at Giverny. Monet painted many of them while suffering from cataracts.

Measurements

Total length (all 8 panels)91 m
186Trumpet lengths
6.79Badminton courts
Panel height2 m
6.56Subway Footlongs
1.09Step ladder heights
7 hundredthsBasketball court lengths
Longest single panel17 m
1.4 tenthsSki jump hills
567Bottle caps
56,667Grains of salt
Total painted area (approx)182 m^2
492Cornhole boards
2,800Toilet seats
Room 1 diameter12 m
52.7 trillionthsMars orbit radii
1.97Boxing ring sides
12 sextillionthsMilky Way diameters
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