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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.
In 2010 the Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay were linked administratively under the Établissement public des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (EPMO). On occasion, the Orangerie still hosts dance and piano concerts and other events in the restored Water Lillies gallery.
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
Musée d'Orsay: The Musée d'Orsay holds a plaster bust of Rude by Jean-Esprit Marcellin, executed in 1847. Marcellin then produced a terracotta version of the composition in 1879 and this was shown at the Paris Salon in 1879 where it was purchased by the French State. This terracotta version is held by the Gap museum, where Marcellin was born.
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.
The Gare d'Orsay (French: [ɡaʁ dɔʁsɛ]) is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris–Orléans railway).
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Portraits at the Stock Exchange (also known as At the Bourse ) is a painting by the French artist Edgar Degas . Completed in about 1879, the painting was already in the collection of the French banker Ernest May when it was listed in the catalogue of the fourth Impressionist exhibition that year.
The sculpture, which is in the Musée d'Orsay, was commissioned for the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. [1] Underneath the veil, Nature wears a gown held up by a scarab. The figure is made of marble, with the gown made of Algerian onyx, and the scarab of malachite. The sculpture has also been reproduced in other media.