Musée d’Orsay – Paris

View from the top of Musée d’Orsay

I spent only 5 days this year in Paris. I visited Musée d’Orsay on 3 June 2018.

Interieur segment of Hall – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The Musée d’Orsay  is a museum in Paris, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum’s opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.

Building of Musée d’Orsay by Seine

I selected some of my photos. Enjoy 🙂

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of wall Renoir – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) | Maternity also called Child at the breast 1885
Oil on canvas 91.5×72 cm

Paintings of Alfred Sisley – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) | Lunch on the Grass 1863
Oil on canvas 208×264.5 cm

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
In a Café, also called Absinthe 1875-1876 – Oil on canvas 92×68.5 cm
Women Ironing ca. 1884-1886 – Oil on canvas 76×81.5 cm

Detail of exhibition with sculptures of Degas – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

A visitor met Degas’ Ballerinas

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) | Small Dancer Aged 14 1921-1931
[model between 1865 and 1881]
Bronze statue patinated in various colours, tulle tutu, pink satin ribbon in the hair, wooden base. 98×35.2×24.5 cm

Pierre-Auguste Renoire (French, 1841-1919 ) | Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette 1876
Oil on canvas 131×175 cm and me 🙂

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

In front Auguste Rodin (French1840-1917) | The Age of Bronze 1877-1880
Bronze statue 178x59x61.5 cm

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891) | Model, side view – Model, Back View – Model, Front View – 1887 

The big clock – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) | Mediterranean also called Thought 1923-1927
Marble 110.5×117.5×68.5 cm

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Rooms of The Nabis

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Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944) | Woman with a Parasol ca. 1895
Oil on canvas 190×149 cm

Hall of Sculptures

Hall of Sculptures

In front Antonin Mercié (French, 1854-1916)| David ca. 1872
Bronze statue 184.1×76.8×83.2 cm

Hall of Sculptures 

In front Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883) | Woman Bitten by a Snake 1847
Marble statue 56.5x180x70 cm

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Detail of Van Gogh’s room – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Selfie with Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) | Starry Night 1888
Oil on canvas 72.5×92 cm

Detail of exhibition – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903) | The yellow wheels [Les meules jaunes] 1889
Oil on canvas 73×92,5 cm

Detail of Hall – Musée d’Orsay, Paris