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Musée d’Orsay. By Julianne Goyena. Before it was a museum…. Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois Port - Quai d’Orsay 1708-1800 Station and Hotel Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur different purposes: - a mailing centre - a set for several films
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Musée d’Orsay By Julianne Goyena
Before it was a museum… • Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois • Port - Quai d’Orsay 1708-1800 • Station and Hotel • Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur • different purposes: - a mailing centre - a set for several films - for auctioneers
Opened as a museum December 1986 • 3 levels • 2,239,050 visitors in average per year • Escalators and elevators • 5 exhibitions at the museum (during the time of our visit)
Saint-Gobain (1665-1937):An Enterprise in the Face of History
An Arrangement In Grey And Black: The Artist’s Mother a.k.a. Whistler’s Mother By James McNeill Whistler
The Luncheon on the Grass By Édouard Manet
Starry Night Over the Rhone By Vincent Van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet By Vincent Van Gogh
Other Artists • Paul Cézanne • Alfred Sisley • Antonio de La Gandara • Edgar Degas • Jean-François Millet • Claude Monet • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Auguste Rodin • Georges Seurat
Bibliography • www.musee-orsay.fr • www.wikipedia.org • www.paris.org/Musees/Orsay/ • www.smartweb.fr/fr/orsay/index.html • www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Musee_d_Orsay.html • www.parisdigest.com/museums/museed'orsay.htm