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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.
Summer Hours (French: L'Heure d'été) is a 2008 French drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas.It is the second in a series of films produced by the Musée d'Orsay, after Flight of the Red Balloon.
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.
From the sixteenth century, the town and surrounding area were owned by the Boucher family, and it was in honor of the family that Louis XIV gave the quai d'Orsay its name. This is the reason that the Musée d'Orsay is not in Orsay. In the eighteenth century, the family of Grimod du Fort bought the land and received the title of Comte d'Orsay ...
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.
This group portrait therefore presents the poets that attended the dinners held at the Vilains Bonshommes, which Edmond Maître had presented to Fantin-Latour. Absent is Albert Mérat, who refused to pose with Rimbaud after an incident that occurred during the dinner of March 2, 1872, when the young poet allegedely interrupted a reading of Jean Aicard and forced the poets to take him out by force.
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 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.