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The Musée d'Orsay (UK: / ˌ m juː z eɪ d ɔːr ˈ s eɪ / MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: / m juː ˈ z eɪ-/ mew-ZAY-, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]) (English: Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, 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 Apparition (Moreau, Musée d'Orsay) Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City; Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable; Arearea; L'Arlésienne (painting) Around the Piano; The Artist's Garden at Giverny; Avenue of Poplars near Moret-sur-Loing
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The subject is a scene of decapitation that takes place in an architectural setting based on the Alhambra, suffused throughout with a sunset glow.An executioner stands on a flight of marble stairs, calmly wiping the blood off his scimitar after striking his victim down.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Equality Before Death is an 1848 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau . It depicts an angel of death covering the body of a young man with a shroud. [ 1 ]
The Truth is an 1870 oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre.It is in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris, since 1982. [1]The Truth was exhibited during the 1870 Salon and was bought by the French state in 1871.
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Burne-Jones commented: "My wheel of Fortune is a true-to-life image; it comes to fetch each of us in turn, then it crushes us." The prime version has been in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1980.