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 Musee d'Orsay - Paris, France
N 48° 51.630 E 002° 19.509
31U E 450502 N 5412167
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris on the left bank of the Seine. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.
Waymark Code: WMV8Y
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 10/15/2006
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Metro : Musée d'Orsay RER line C station
The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Emile Bénard and Victor Laloux. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939.
By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing center during World War II. The station's hotel closed on 1 January 1973.
In 1977 the French Government decided to convert the station to a museum and it was opened by President François Mitterrand on 1 December 1986.
This museum is known for its collection of Impressionist paintings.
Artists/works represented in the museum are :
Gustave Courbet - The Artist's Studio, Young Man Sitting, L'Origine du monde
Jean-François Millet - Spring, The Gleaners
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - A Morning. The Dance of the Nymphs
Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus, The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Portrait of the baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, Reception of Condé in Versailles, La Comtesse de Keller
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Young Girls by the Seaside, The Young Mother also known as Charity, View on the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie
Eugène Boudin - Trouville Beach
Camille Pissarro - White Frost
Édouard Manet - Olympia, The Balcony, Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets, The Luncheon on the Grass
Edgar Degas - The Parade, also known as Race Horses in front of the Tribunes, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Edouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L’Absinthe
Paul Cézanne - Apples and Oranges
Claude Monet - The Saint-Lazare Station, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878, Wind Effect, Series of The Poplars, Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue
Odilon Redon - Caliban
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Jules Desbois - Destitution
Ferdinand Hodler - Der Holzfäller (The Woodcutter)
Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Planers
Édouard Detaille - The Dream
Vincent Van Gogh - The Siesta, The Church at Auvers, View from the Chevet, The Italian Woman, Starry Night Over the Rhone, Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Eugène Jansson - Proletarian Lodgings
Paul Signac - Women at the Well
Félix Vallotton - Misia at Her Dressing Table
Georges-Pierre Seurat - The Circus
Pierre Bonnard - The Chequered Blouse
André Devambez - The Charge
Paul Sérusier - The Talisman, the Aven River at the Bois d'Amour
Maurice Denis - Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen, Princess Maleine's Minuet or Marthe Playing the Piano, The Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel, October Night (panel for the decoration of a girl's room)
André Derain - Charing Cross Bridge, also known as Westminster Bridge
Name: Musse d'Orsay
Location:
62 rue Lille
75007 Paris
Phone Number: 01 40 49 48 14
Web Site: [Web Link]
Agency/Ownership: Public
Hours of operation:
The museum is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm
and on Thursdays from 9.30am to 9.45pm
Tickets sold until 5pm, 9pm on Thursdays
Galleries start closing at 5.30pm, 9.15pm on Thursdays
The museum is open on Easter Sunday, on May 25, on July 14, on November 1 and on November 11
The museum is shut on Mondays.
and on January 1, May 1 and December 25
Admission Fee: Full price : 7.5 Euros
Gift Shop: yes
Cafe/Restaurant: yes
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