Musée d’Orsay
By Julianne Goyena
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
• 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)
Cézanne and
Pissarro1865-1885
Objects and their Doubles
Saint-Gobain (1665-1937):An Enterprise in the Face of
History
Figures and
Portraits
CorrespondencesMusée d'Orsay /
Contemporary Art
An ArrangementIn GreyAnd Black:The Artist’sMother
a.k.a.
Whistler’s Mother
ByJamesMcNeillWhistler
Olympia by Édouard Manet
TheLuncheonon theGrass
ByÉdouard Manet
StarryNightOver the Rhone
ByVincentVanGogh
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
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