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(c) Patricia Barry 2007
Paris 2.
Le Musée d’Orsay
The Orsay MuseumPhotographs © Patricia Barry 2007
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Le Musée d’Orsay 1
• This museum is opposite the Louvre
• It looks like a railway station and it was a railway station!
• After World War II when the art collections were reassembled, it was found that the Louvre was not big enough to store and present all the art works and sculptures.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 2
• The Gare d’Orsay was a derelict station which was specially re-designed to house 19th century art and sculpture.
• The Orsay Museum shows works dating between 1848 and 1915.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 3
• The sculpture gallery is located between the platforms, where the rails once ran.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 4
• This is the famous original gilded station clock which was restored.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 5
• Above the original station, was a five star hôtel for weary travellers.
• This room was once the hôtel ballroom.
• It still has much of the original décor, but it is now a restaurant.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 6
• The original station clock tower overlooks the Louvre museum.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 7
• The central gallery is reserved for large sculptures
• The platforms on each side, and the other rooms, are reserved for 19th century paintings, smaller sculptures and furniture.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 8
• In this museum, you can see the impressionist works of Vincent Van Gogh.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 9
• In the rooms upstairs, there are many of his works.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 10
• This is Van Gogh’s painting of his room and his little bed.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 11
• This is one of Monet’s famous works.
• The picture is enormous – As Monet liked to paint outside, transportation of his canvases caused big problems!
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Le Musée d’Orsay 12
• The garden and bridge at Monet’s house in Giverny.
• Monet painted outside which was unusual at this time.
• Again, this is a very large picture. He had to hoist the canvas using pulleys.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 13
• Here you can see the sketches for Toulouse Lautrec’s famous posters for café concerts
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Le Musée d’Orsay 14
• The huge polar bear on the ground floor is a great favourite with younger children.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 15
• Renoir’s dancers.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 16
• Milet’s workers in the hayfield.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 17
• Among the exhibits is a wonderful model of Haussmann’s Paris in the 19th century.
• Here is part of the opened out view of the Opéra house.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 18
• Many of the original sculptures, for example from the Arc de Triomphe, are to be found here.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 19
• This painting is by Renoir
• It shows ordinary people enjoying their Sunday day off in a café in Montmartre
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Le Musée d’Orsay 20
• This style of painting using dots is known as ‘pointillisme’
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Le Musée d’Orsay 21
• Dégas was a painter and a sculptor
• These little figures of ballet dancers measure only 7 or 8 cm.
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Le Musée d’Orsay 22
• This is Dégas’ best known work.
• It is known as “La danseuse”
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Le Musée d’Orsay 23
• Gaugin went to live in Tahiti There he painted pictures of typical Polynesian life
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Le Musée d’Orsay 24
• Le Musée d’Orsay at night.
• These were some of its treasures. Au revoir!