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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 passenger concourse in the Gare d'Orsay, 1920. Advancements in the railways in the early 20th century led to the introduction of much longer mainline trains. Although the Gare d'Orsay offered a convenient central location, the site was restricted and there was no possibility of lengthening the platforms to accommodate the new, longer trains.
On a trip to Spain in 1865, Édouard Manet visited the Prado, where the art of Diego Velázquez was a revelation. Upon his return to Paris in 1866, he began work on a new painting, depicting an anonymous regimental fifer of the Spanish army.
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.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 , best known under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother or Portrait of Artist's Mother , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871.
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 original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny ) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay , Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life.
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