(c) patricia barry 2007 paris 2. le musée d’orsay the orsay museum photographs © patricia barry...

(c) Patricia Barry 2007

Paris 2.

Le Musée d’Orsay

The Orsay MuseumPhotographs © Patricia Barry 2007


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.



• 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.



• The sculpture gallery is located between the platforms, where the rails once ran.



• This is the famous original gilded station clock which was restored.



• 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.



• The original station clock tower overlooks the Louvre museum.



• 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.



• In this museum, you can see the impressionist works of Vincent Van Gogh.



• In the rooms upstairs, there are many of his works.



• This is Van Gogh’s painting of his room and his little bed.



• 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!



• 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.



• Here you can see the sketches for Toulouse Lautrec’s famous posters for café concerts



• The huge polar bear on the ground floor is a great favourite with younger children.



• Renoir’s dancers.



• Milet’s workers in the hayfield.



• 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.



• Many of the original sculptures, for example from the Arc de Triomphe, are to be found here.



• This painting is by Renoir

• It shows ordinary people enjoying their Sunday day off in a café in Montmartre



• This style of painting using dots is known as ‘pointillisme’



• Dégas was a painter and a sculptor

• These little figures of ballet dancers measure only 7 or 8 cm.



• This is Dégas’ best known work.

• It is known as “La danseuse”



• Gaugin went to live in Tahiti There he painted pictures of typical Polynesian life



• Le Musée d’Orsay at night.

• These were some of its treasures. Au revoir!

(c) patricia barry 2007 paris 2. le musée d’orsay the orsay museum photographs © patricia barry...

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