1. Musée d’Orsay By Julianne Goyena

2. Before it was a museum… Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois Port - Quai d’Orsay 1708-1800 Station and Hotel –Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur –different purposes: - a mailing centre - a set for several films - for auctioneers

3. Opened as a museum December 1986 3 levels 2,239,050 visitors in average per year Escalators and elevators 5 exhibitions at the museum (during the time of our visit)

4. Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885

5. Objects and their Doubles

6. Saint-Gobain (1665-1937): An Enterprise in the Face of History

7. Figures and Portraits

8. Correspondences Musée d'Orsay / Contemporary Art

9. An Arrangement In Grey And Black: The Artist’s Mother a.k.a. Whistler’s Mother By James McNeill Whistler

10. Olympia by Édouard Manet

11. The Luncheon on the Grass By Édouard Manet

12. Starry Night Over the Rhone By Vincent Van Gogh

13. Portrait of Dr. Gachet By Vincent Van Gogh

14. Other Artists Paul Cézanne Alfred Sisley Antonio de La Gandara Edgar Degas Jean-François Millet Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Auguste Rodin Georges Seurat

15. Bibliography www.musee-orsay.fr www.wikipedia.org www.paris.org/Musees/Orsay/ www.smartweb.fr/fr/orsay/index.html www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Musee_d_Orsay.html www.parisdigest.com/museums/museed'orsay.htm