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Musee d'Orsay

  • Historically Known As: Gare d'Orsay
  • Address: 1 Rue de la Legion d'Honneur
  • Vicinity: Rue du Bac, Metro: line 12, to Solferino
  • Arrondissement Municipal of 7th Lt, Palais-Bourbon in Paris
  • Hours: Open from 9.30am to 6pm daily, except Mondays, late night on Thursdays until 9.45pm last tickets sold at 5pm (9pm Thursdays), Closed Mondays, 1 May and 25 December
  • Phone: 1 40 49 48 14
  • Type: Congeries Repository
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums
  • Museum Type: Congeries Repository

Musee d'Orsay is a world class art museum notable for a large collection of French impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces by such painters as Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh. - AsNotedIn


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Objects of Art
WorkTypeCreatorAsNotedIn
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother Painting
Bal du moulin de la Galette (painting) Painting
Circus Painting
Femme piquee par un serpent Sculpture
Interior (Ilsted painting) Painting
L'Absinthe Painting
L'Angelus Painting
L'Origine du Monde Painting
Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe Painting
Louis Pasteur in His Laboratory Painting
Olympia Painting
Orpheus Painting
Roses in a Dish Painting
Studio at Batignolles Painting
The Artist's Studio Nine rue de la Condamine Painting
The Bed Painting
The Bedroom at Arles (painting) Painting
The Bellelli Family Painting
The Damsel in Distress Painting
The Dance Class Painting
The Red Roofs Painting
The Studio of the Painter, a Real Allegory Painting
The Tub Painting
Young Girls at the Piano Painting

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1867/00/00 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sculptor Saint-Gaudens is inspired to depict Shaw on horseback with marching soldiers from a painting he saw in France, Campagne de France 1814, by Jean-Louis Meissonier, which shows Napoleon on horseback with rows of infantry, now at the Musee d'Orsay. Establishment of the Shaw Memorial
1898/00/00 Emile Benard Architect Designed by architects Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux, construction begins on the Orsay railway station for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. 1900 Exposition Universelle
1900/00/00 Victor Laloux Architect Orsay railway station is completed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, designed by architects Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux. 1900 Exposition Universelle

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Particulars for Musee d'Orsay:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Railroad
Historic Use Railroad Depot
Area of Significance Transportation



Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
The Trial (1962) Film Orson Welles "The Trial" was filmed in the Gare d'Orsay, Paris, France

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