Musée d’Orsay By Julianne Goyena
Before it was a museum… Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois Port - Quai d’Orsay Station and Hotel –Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur –different purposes: - a mailing centre - a set for several films - for auctioneers
Opened as a museum December levels 2,239,050 visitors in average per year Escalators and elevators 5 exhibitions at the museum (during the time of our visit)
Cézanne and Pissarro
Objects and their Doubles
Saint-Gobain ( ): An Enterprise in the Face of History
Figures and Portraits
Correspondences Musée d'Orsay / Contemporary Art
An Arrangement In Grey And Black: The Artist’s Mother a.k.a. Whistler’s Mother By James McNeill Whistler
Olympia by Édouard Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass By Édouard Manet
Starry Night Over the Rhone By Vincent Van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet By Vincent Van Gogh
Other Artists Paul Cézanne Alfred Sisley Antonio de La Gandara Edgar Degas Jean-François Millet Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Auguste Rodin Georges Seurat
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