It's easy to presume that Paris' Musée d'Orsay holds the most impressive collection of paintings and sketches from beloved Impressionist Claude Monet-- the permanent exhibition does include some of the artist's more iconic paintings-- but the lesser-known Musée Marmottan-Monet in fact houses the world's largest holding of works by Monet.
The intimate museum, tucked away in a quiet stretch of the city's posh 16th arrondissement (district), was created when a friend of the Monet family and the artist's son, Michel, bequeathed some 130 paintings, drawings, and other artifacts-- making the collection a highly personal one. Especially If you missed last year's much-lauded Monet retrospective at the Grand Palais, take some time to explore the Marmottan Monet museum: it'll give you a less caricatural perspective on the artist whose most famous paintings have fueled a booming industry of coffee mugs, tablecloths and table coasters, and prove you probably don't know everything there is to know about his remarkable body of work.
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