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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 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 106 cm high and 72,2 cm wide watercolor held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris elaborates on an episode told in the Matthew 14:6–11 and Mark 6:21–29. [1] On a feast held for Herod Antipas' birthday, the princess Salome dances in front of the king and his guests. This pleased him so much he promises her anything she wished for.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Equality Before Death is an 1848 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau . It depicts an angel of death covering the body of a young man with a shroud. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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It was rediscovered in a private house in Kölblöd, Bavaria, Germany in 1949 after being bought on the black market or seized by Hermann Brandl.It was returned to France on 3 June that year and assigned to the Louvre two years later by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Woman Bitten by a Serpent (French: Femme piquée par un serpent ) is an 1847 marble sculpture by Auguste Clésinger (1814–1883), now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake latched onto her left arm.