Musée d’Orsay By Julianne Goyena. Before it was a museum… Garden - Henry IV’s queen,...

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Musée d’Orsay Julianne Goyena

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Musée d’Orsay

By Julianne Goyena

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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

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• 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)

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Cézanne and

Pissarro1865-1885

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Objects and their Doubles

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

History

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Figures and

Portraits

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CorrespondencesMusée d'Orsay /

Contemporary Art

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An ArrangementIn GreyAnd Black:The Artist’sMother

a.k.a.

Whistler’s Mother

ByJamesMcNeillWhistler

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Olympia by Édouard Manet

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TheLuncheonon theGrass

ByÉdouard Manet

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StarryNightOver the Rhone

ByVincentVanGogh

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Portrait of Dr. Gachet

By Vincent Van Gogh

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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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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