Which Paris museum houses Claude Monet’s painting The Magpie?

Claude Monet’s painting The Magpie is housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

The Magpie is an early example of Monet’s interest in changing light and atmosphere. Painted during the winter of 1868–1869, it shows a single dark bird perched on a gate in a snowy landscape. Rather than treating snow as simply white, Monet used subtle blue, violet, and warm tones to suggest reflected light and shadow.

The painting belongs to the Musée d’Orsay’s major collection of nineteenth-century art. That collection includes many important Impressionist works, making the museum one of the key places to study Monet alongside artists such as Renoir, Degas, and Pissarro.

The title can cause confusion because Monet painted many landscapes with simple, sharply observed subjects. The Magpie is specifically the snowy scene featuring one bird on a gate, not one of his water-lily, haystack, or cathedral series.