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The Angelus (painting) 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
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.
Dante and Virgil in Hell is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. [1] The painting depicts a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy, which narrates a journey through Hell by Dante and his guide Virgil. In the scene the author and his guide are looking on as two ...
The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was ...
According to postcard sales, in 2007 L'Origine du monde was the second most popular painting in the Musée d'Orsay, after Renoir's Bal du moulin de la Galette. [ 17 ] Some critics maintain that the body depicted is not (as has been argued) a lively erotic portrayal of a female but of a corpse: " L'Origine does not represent a full female body ...
The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of van Gogh's more famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June, 1889, canvas from Saint-Remy, The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on 2 October ...
From 1879-94 the painting was in the collection of the French painter Gustave Caillebotte; when he died it became the property of the French Republic as payment for death duties. From 1896-1929 the painting hung in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. From 1929 it hung in the Louvre until it was transferred to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Self-Portrait, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1876: 73.3 cm × 57.3 cm (28.9 in × 22.6 in) Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette) 1876: 131 cm × 175 cm (52 in × 69 in) Musée d'Orsay, Paris Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) 1876
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