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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.
In 1973 the Gare d'Orsay was designated a protected Monument historique. [10] Main exhibition hall of the Musée d'Orsay (opened 1986) At the time, the French Ministry of Culture was facing problems with a lack of exhibition space, particularly in the Musée du Jeu de Paume and the Louvre.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris The Poppy Field near Argenteuil ( French : Coquelicots ) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet , completed in 1873. Following its donation to the French state in 1906 by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton , it was housed successively in the Louvre , Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Jeu de ...
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
It was displayed at the Louvre from 1914 until 1947, when it was relocated to the Musée du Jeu de Paume. It was included in the sweeping Manet retrospective held at the Grand Palais in 1983, the 100th anniversary of the artist's death. In 1986, it was moved to its current home in the Musée d'Orsay, the national museum of 19th-century art.
The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917). [1]The musicians depicted in the orchestra pit of the Salle Le Peletier the home of the Paris Opera (from 1821 until it burnt down in 1873) are mostly portraits of friends of Degas, foremost among them pictorially the bassoonist and composer Désiré Dihau (1838–1909), who ...
It was acquired by the Musée d'Orsay in 1985 and, after restoration at the Coubertin foundry in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, was put on display in its current location. [1] [9] The Austrian sculptor Arnulf Rainer, writing in 1988, noted that the Rhinocéros looked as if it was pondering "some collective prehistoric memory". [5]