The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by such painters such as Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Cezanne. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.
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History
The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare
d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and
finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design
of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux.
It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until
1939.
By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for
the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services.
After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became
a mailing center during World War II. It was then used as a set for
several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles,
and as a haven for the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company and for
auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt. The
station's hotel closed on 1 January, 1973.
Museum
conversion
In 1977 the French Government decided to convert the station to
a museum. ACT Architecture (Renaud Bardon, Pierre Colboc and
Jean-Paul Philippon) were the designers and the construction work
was carried by Bouygues. The Italian architect Gae Aulenti oversaw
the design of the conversion from 1980 to 1986. work involved
creating 20,000 sq. m. of new floorspace on four floors. The new
museum was opened by President François Mitterrand on 1 December
1986.
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Europe by Alexandre Schoenewerk
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North America by :
Starry Night Over the Rhone
Arles, september
1888]]
Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, 1876]]
The Luncheon on the Grass
1862-3]]
The Artist's Studio
detail, 1855]]
Apples and Oranges
circa 1899]]
Major painters and works
represented
- Gustave Courbet — The Artist's Studio, Young Man
Sitting, L'Origine du monde
- Jean-François Millet — Spring, The Gleaners
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot — A Morning. The Dance of the
Nymphs
- Alexandre Cabanel — The Birth of Venus, The Death of
Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
- Jean-Léon Gérôme — Portrait of the baroness Nathaniel de
Rothschild, Reception of Condé in Versailles, La
Comtesse de Keller
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — Young Girls by the Seaside,
The Young Mother also known as Charity, View on the
Château de Versailles and the Orangerie
- Eugène Boudin — Trouville Beach
- Camille Pissarro — White Frost
- Édouard Manet — Olympia, The Balcony, Berthe
Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets, The Luncheon on the
Grass
- Edgar Degas — The Parade, also known as Race Horses
in front of the Tribunes, The Bellelli Family, The
Tub, Portrait of Edouard Manet, Portraits, At the
Stock Exchange, L’Absinthe
- Paul Cézanne — Apples and Oranges
- Claude Monet — The Saint-Lazare Station, The Rue
Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878, Wind
Effect, Series of The Poplars, Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in
Blue, Blue Water Lilies
- Odilon Redon — Caliban
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bal au moulin de la Galette,
Montmartre
- Jules Desbois — Destitution
- Ferdinand Hodler — Der Holzfäller (The Woodcutter)
- Gustave Caillebotte — The Floor Planers
- Édouard Detaille — The Dream
- Brian Wright — "The Man"
- Vincent Van Gogh — Self Portriat,The Siesta,
The Church at Auvers, View from the Chevet, The
Italian Woman, Starry Night Over the Rhone, Portrait
of Dr. Gachet
- Eugène Jansson — Proletarian Lodgings
- Paul Signac — Women at the Well
- Félix Vallotton — Misia at Her Dressing Table
- Georges-Pierre Seurat — The Circus
- Pierre Bonnard — The Chequered Blouse
- André Devambez — The Charge
- Paul Sérusier — The Talisman, the Aven River at the Bois
d'Amour
- Maurice Denis — Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen,
Princess Maleine's Minuet or Marthe Playing the
Piano, The Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel,
October Night (panel for the decoration of a girl's
room)
- André Derain — Charing Cross Bridge, also known as
Westminster Bridge
- James McNeill Whistler — Arrangement in Grey and Black: The
Artist's Mother, also known as Whistler's Mother
- William Adolphe Bouguereau — The Birth of Venus
Major
sculptors
François Rude, Jules Cavelier, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Auguste
Rodin, Paul Gauguin, Camille Claudel and Honoré Daumier.
Other
works
It also holds collections of:
- architecture and decorative arts
- photography
References
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