The Orsay Museum is a national museum opened in 1986.
Located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine, overlooking the Édouard-Glissant promenade, it is housed in the former Orsay station, built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900 and converted into a museum by decision of the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe for this period.
The museum has the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, with nearly 1,100 canvases in total out of over 3,650, and you can see masterpieces of painting and sculpture such as Le Luncheon on the Grass and the Olympia by Édouard Manet, a proof of The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer by Degas, L'Origine du monde, A Burial in Ornans, The Workshop of the painter from Courbet, The Card Players by Cézanne or five paintings from the Rouen Cathedrals Series by Monet and Bal du Moulin de la Galette by Renoir.
Temporary monographic or thematic exhibitions relating periodically to the work of an artist, a current or a question of art history are often set up. An auditorium hosts a variety of events, concerts, cinema, shadow theater, conferences and seminars, and shows specifically aimed at young audiences.
The Musée d'Orsay exhibits and preserves the largest collection of impressionist (over 480 canvases) and post-impressionist (over 600 cloisonnist, neo-impressionist, symbolist, nabis, etc.) paintings in the world, as well as remarkable sets of paintings from the Barbizon school, realists, naturalists, orientalists and academics, including foreign schools. Nearly 5,190 paintings make up the collection, but many works, including nearly 1,690 paintings, including a hundred that were not located, stolen or destroyed, were deposited in provincial museums or public buildings out of a total of 5,272 deposits, such as 24 of the 70 paintings by Maurice Denis 22 of the 95 paintings by Vuillard, 21 of the 88 paintings by Bonnard, 19 of the 83 paintings by Renoir or 17 of the 87 paintings by Monet.
This non-exhaustive list lists the main painters represented at the Musée d'Orsay with the number of their paintings kept in the collections as well as the title of the main ones, whether or not they are exhibited, given the regular renewal of the hangings. . This list also mentions pastels, for the artists concerned: indeed, although not belonging to the painting department, a certain number of pastels are exhibited in the permanent collections of the museum. The collection also includes 22,985 architectural and decorative art drawings and 45,003 photographs, since 2010, a small number of artists' drawings (154 as of January 1, 2021), in particular so as not to be separated from paintings offered by some donors, whereas until then they had all been deposited in the graphic arts department of the Louvre museum, which on January 1, 2021 kept 55,723 drawings from the “Drawings and miniatures collection, collection of the Musée d'Orsay”
Located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine, overlooking the Édouard-Glissant promenade, it is housed in the former Orsay station, built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900 and converted into a museum by decision of the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe for this period.
The museum has the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, with nearly 1,100 canvases in total out of over 3,650, and you can see masterpieces of painting and sculpture such as Le Luncheon on the Grass and the Olympia by Édouard Manet, a proof of The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer by Degas, L'Origine du monde, A Burial in Ornans, The Workshop of the painter from Courbet, The Card Players by Cézanne or five paintings from the Rouen Cathedrals Series by Monet and Bal du Moulin de la Galette by Renoir.
Temporary monographic or thematic exhibitions relating periodically to the work of an artist, a current or a question of art history are often set up. An auditorium hosts a variety of events, concerts, cinema, shadow theater, conferences and seminars, and shows specifically aimed at young audiences.
The Musée d'Orsay exhibits and preserves the largest collection of impressionist (over 480 canvases) and post-impressionist (over 600 cloisonnist, neo-impressionist, symbolist, nabis, etc.) paintings in the world, as well as remarkable sets of paintings from the Barbizon school, realists, naturalists, orientalists and academics, including foreign schools. Nearly 5,190 paintings make up the collection, but many works, including nearly 1,690 paintings, including a hundred that were not located, stolen or destroyed, were deposited in provincial museums or public buildings out of a total of 5,272 deposits, such as 24 of the 70 paintings by Maurice Denis 22 of the 95 paintings by Vuillard, 21 of the 88 paintings by Bonnard, 19 of the 83 paintings by Renoir or 17 of the 87 paintings by Monet.
This non-exhaustive list lists the main painters represented at the Musée d'Orsay with the number of their paintings kept in the collections as well as the title of the main ones, whether or not they are exhibited, given the regular renewal of the hangings. . This list also mentions pastels, for the artists concerned: indeed, although not belonging to the painting department, a certain number of pastels are exhibited in the permanent collections of the museum. The collection also includes 22,985 architectural and decorative art drawings and 45,003 photographs, since 2010, a small number of artists' drawings (154 as of January 1, 2021), in particular so as not to be separated from paintings offered by some donors, whereas until then they had all been deposited in the graphic arts department of the Louvre museum, which on January 1, 2021 kept 55,723 drawings from the “Drawings and miniatures collection, collection of the Musée d'Orsay”
