Editing Musée d'Orsay

{{short description|Art museum in Paris, France}}
{{About|the museum|other uses|D'Orsay (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox museum
| name            = Musée d'Orsay
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| caption         = The Musée d'Orsay as seen from the [[Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor]]
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| established     = 1986
| location        = ''Rue de Lille'' 75343 Paris, France
| type            = [[Art museum]], Design/Textile Museum, [[Historic site]]<ref>{{Cite web | title= Musée d'Orsay: About | website=ArtInfo | year=2008 | url= http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/18782/5349/about/muse-dorsay-paris/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022102706/http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/18782/5349/about/muse-dorsay-paris/ |archive-date=2008-10-22 | access-date=30 July 2008 }}</ref>
| visitors        = 3.9 million (2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/26/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-world-2023 |website=theartnewspaper.com |publisher=The Art Newspaper |access-date=3 September 2024}}</ref>
| director        = Serge Lemoine
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| website         = {{URL|http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/|musee-orsay.fr}}
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The '''Musée d'Orsay''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˌ|m|juː|z|eɪ|_|d|ɔːr|ˈ|s|eɪ}} {{respell|MEW|zay|_|dor|SAY}}, {{IPAc-en|US|m|juː|ˈ|z|eɪ|_|-}} {{respell|mew|ZAY|_-}}, {{IPA|fr|myze dɔʁsɛ|lang}}) ({{langx|en|Orsay Museum}}) is a [[museum]] in [[Paris]], [[France]], on the [[Rive Gauche|Left Bank]] of the [[Seine]]. It is housed in the former [[Gare d'Orsay]], a [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mainly [[French art]] dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of [[Impressionist]] and [[post-Impressionist]] masterpieces in the world, by painters including [[Berthe Morisot]], [[Monet|Claude Monet]], [[Manet|Édouard Manet]], [[Degas]], [[Renoir]], [[Cézanne]], [[Seurat]], [[Alfred Sisley|Sisley]], [[Gauguin]], and [[Vincent van Gogh|van Gogh]]. Many of these works were held at the [[Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume]] prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the [[list of largest art museums|largest]] art museums in Europe.

In 2022 the museum had 3.2 million visitors, up from 1.4 million in 2021. It was the sixth-most-visited art museum in the world in 2022, and second-most-visited art museum in France, after the [[Louvre]].<ref>"The Art Newspaper", March 27, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/arts-expos/la-frequentation-des-musees-parisiens-en-nette-hausse-en-2022-un-retour-a-la-normale-d-avant-pandemie-se-profile_5582568.html] Franceinfo Culture, 5 January 2023</ref>

==History==
[[File:Pont Royal and Musée d'Orsay, Paris 10 July 2020.jpg|left|thumb|Musée d'Orsay as seen from the [[Pont du Carrousel]]]]
[[File:MuseedOrsayParisFrance.jpg|thumb|left|Musée d'Orsay Clock, [[Victor Laloux]], Main Hall]]
[[File:Paryż orsay.JPG|thumb|left|upright=.76|The interior of the museum]]
The museum building was originally a railway station, [[Gare d'Orsay]], located next to the Seine river. Built on the site of the Palais d'Orsay, its central location was convenient for commuting travelers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Musee d'Orsay {{!}} History, Art, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Musee-dOrsay|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> The station was constructed for the [[Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans]] and finished in time for the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 Exposition Universelle]] to the design of three architects: [[Lucien Magne]], [[Émile Bénard]] and [[Victor Laloux]]. The Gare d'Orsay design was considered to be an "anachronism".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mainardi|first=Patricia|date=1987|title=Postmodern History at the Musée d'Orsay|journal=October|volume=41|pages=31–52|doi=10.2307/778328| jstor=778328 |issn=0162-2870}}</ref> Since trains were such a modern innovation for the time architects and designers alike expected a building that would embody the modern traits of this new mode of transportation. Gare d'Orsay instead gained inspiration from the past for the concept of the facade to the point of masking the cutting-edge technology within. 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 centre during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as [[Kafka]]'s ''[[The Trial (1962 film)|The Trial]]'' adapted by [[Orson Welles]], and as a haven for the [[Madeleine Renaud|Renaud]]–[[Jean-Louis Barrault|Barrault]] Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the [[Hôtel Drouot]] was being rebuilt.

In the 1970s work began on building a 1&nbsp;km-long tunnel under the station as part of the creation of [[RER C|line C]] of the [[Réseau Express Régional]] with a [[Musée d'Orsay station|new station]] under the old station. In 1970, permission was granted to demolish the station but [[Jacques Duhamel]], Minister for Cultural Affairs, ruled against plans to build a new hotel in its stead. The station was put on the supplementary list of Historic Monuments and finally listed in 1978. The suggestion to turn the station into a museum came from the Directorate of the [[Museum of France]]. The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the [[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]] and the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne|National Museum of Modern Art]] at the [[Centre Pompidou|Georges Pompidou Centre]]. The plan was accepted by [[Georges Pompidou]] and a study was commissioned in 1974. In 1978, a competition was organized to design the new museum. ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon), were awarded the contract which involved creating {{convert|20,000|m2|sqft}} of new floorspace on four floors. The construction work was carried out by [[Bouygues]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouygues.com/us/groupe/fiches/pop_musee_orsay.html |title=Bouygues website: Musée d'Orsay |publisher=Bouygues.com |access-date=20 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205220921/http://www.bouygues.com/us/groupe/fiches/pop_musee_orsay.html |archive-date=5 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 1981, the Italian architect [[Gae Aulenti]] was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. The arrangement of the galleries she designed was elaborate and inhabited the three main levels that are under the museum's barrel vault atrium. On the main level of the building, a central nave was formed by the surrounding stone structures that were previously the building's train platforms. The central nave's structures break up the immense sculpture and gallery spaces and provided more organized units for viewing the art.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Musée d'Orsay|url=https://academic-eb-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/levels/collegiate/article/Musée-dOrsay/57464 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2021-03-16|website=Britannica Academic}}</ref> In July 1986, the museum was ready to receive its exhibits. It took 6 months to install the 2,000 or so paintings, 600 sculptures and other works. The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president [[François Mitterrand]].

At any time about 3,000 art pieces are on display within Musée d'Orsay. Within the museum is a 1:100 scale model created by [[Richard Peduzzi]] of an aerial view of Paris Opera and surrounding area. This model is encapsulated underneath glass flooring that viewers walk on as they proceed through the museum. This installation allows the viewers to understand the city planning of Paris at the time, which has made this attraction one of the most popular within the museum.

Another exhibit within the museum is "A Passion for France: The Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection". This collection was donated by an Marlene and Spencer Hays, art collectors who reside in Texas and have been collecting art since the early 1970s. In 2016 the museum complied to keeping the collection of about 600 art pieces in one collection rather than dispersed throughout other exhibits. Since World War II, France has not been donated a collection of foreign art this large. The collection favors mostly post-impressionist works. Artists featured in this collection are Bonnard, Vuillard, [[Maurice Denis]], [[Odilon Redon]], [[Aristide Maillol]], [[André Derain]], [[Edgar Degas]], and [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Login|url=https://weblogin.asu.edu/cas/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Fezproxy-config.lib.asu.edu%2Fauth|access-date=2021-03-08|website=weblogin.asu.edu}}</ref> To make room for the art that has been donated, the Musée d'Orsay is scheduled to undergo a radical transformation over the next decade, 2020 on. This remodel is funded in part by an anonymous US patron who donated €20 million to a building project known as ''Orsay Grand Ouvert'' (Orsay Wide Open). The gift was made via the American Friends of the Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie.<ref name="auto">Gareth Harris (March 6, 2020), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/anonymous-eur20m-donation-kickstarts-musee-d-orsay-transformation Anonymous €20m donation kickstarts Musée d'Orsay transformation] ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref> The projected completion date is 2026, implementing new galleries and education opportunities to endorse a conductive experience.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=2020-03-05|title=Musée d'Orsay to Expand Spaces for Exhibitions and Education (Published 2020)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/arts/design/musee-dorsay-expansion.html|access-date=2021-03-08|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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The square next to the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the {{lang|fr|[[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Exposition Universelle]]|italic=no}}:

* ''South America'' by [[Aimé Millet]]
* ''Asia'' by [[Alexandre Falguière]]
* ''Oceania'' by [[Mathurin Moreau]]
* ''Europe'' by [[Alexandre Schoenewerk]]
* ''North America'' by [[Ernest-Eugène Hiolle]]
* ''Africa'' by [[Eugène Delaplanche]]

==Collection==
[[File:Starry Night Over the Rhone.jpg|thumb|[[Vincent van Gogh]]: <br /> ''[[Starry Night Over the Rhône]]'', 1888]]
[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg|thumb|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]:<br /> ''[[Bal du moulin de la Galette]]'', 1876]]
[[File:Edouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|[[Édouard Manet]] <br />''[[The Luncheon on the Grass]]''<br /> 1862-63]]
[[File:Courbet LAtelier du peintre.jpg|thumb|[[Gustave Courbet]]:<br /> ''[[The Artist's Studio]]'' 1855]]
[[File:Card Players-Paul Cezanne.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cézanne]]:<br /> ''[[The Card Players]]'' 1894–1895]]
[[File:Paul Cézanne 179.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cézanne]]:<br /> ''Apples and Oranges''<br /> c. 1899]]
[[File:Bouguereau - égalité devant la mort 1848.jpg|thumb|[[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], ''Equality Before Death'', 1848]]

===Paintings: major painters and works represented===
*[[Frédéric Bazille]] – 6 paintings including ''[[The Family Reunion (painting)|The Family Reunion]]'', ''[[The Improvised Field Hospital]]'', ''[[The Pink Dress]]'', ''[[Studio in Rue de La Condamine]]''
*[[Cecilia Beaux]] – ''Sita and Sarita (Jeune Fille au Chat)''
*[[Rosa Bonheur]] - ''[[Ploughing in the Nivernais]]''
*[[Pierre Bonnard]] – 60 paintings including ''The Chequered Blouse''
*[[Eugène Boudin]] – 33 paintings including ''Trouville Beach''
*[[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]] – 12 paintings including [[The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)|''The Birth of Venus'']], ''[[La Danse (Bouguereau)|La Danse]]'', ''[[Dante and Virgil]]''
*[[Louise Catherine Breslau]] - 4 paintings including ''[[:fr:Portrait de Henry Davison|Portrait of Henry Davison]]''
*[[Alexandre Cabanel]] – ''[[The Birth of Venus (Cabanel)|The Birth of Venus]]'', ''The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta''
*[[Gustave Caillebotte]] – 7 paintings including ''[[Les raboteurs de parquet|The Floor Scrapers]]'', ''[[Vue de toits (Effet de neige)]]''
*[[Eugène Carrière]] – 86 paintings including ''The Painting Family'', ''The Sick Child'', ''Intimacy''
*[[Mary Cassatt]] – 1 painting
*[[Paul Cézanne]] – 56 paintings including ''Apples and Oranges'', ''[[The Hanged Man's House]]'', ''[[The Card Players]]'', ''[[Portrait of Gustave Geffroy]]''
*[[Théodore Chassériau]] – 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the [[Louvre]])
*[[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''
*[[Gustave Courbet]] – 48 paintings including ''[[The Artist's Studio]]'', ''[[A Burial at Ornans]]'', ''Young Man Sitting'', {{Lang|fr|[[L'Origine du monde]]}}, ''[[Le ruisseau noir]]'', ''[[Still-Life with Fruit (Courbet)|Still-Life with Fruit]]'', ''[[The Wave (Courbet)|The Wave]]'', ''[[The Wounded Man (painting)|The Wounded Man]]''
*[[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]] – 32 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the [[Louvre]]) including ''A Morning. The Dance of the Nymphs''
*[[Henri-Edmond Cross]] – 10 paintings including ''The Cypresses in Cagnes''
*[[Leon Dabo]] – 1 paintings ''Moore Park''
*[[Henri-Camille Danger]] - ''Fleau!''
*[[Charles-François Daubigny]] - ''[[The Harvest (Charles-François Daubigny)|The Harvest]]''
*[[Honoré Daumier]] – 8 paintings including ''[[The Laundress (Daumier)|The Laundress]]''
*[[Edgar Degas]] – 43 works including paintings such as ''The Parade'', also known as ''Race Horses in front of the Tribunes'', The ''Bellelli Family'', ''The Tub'', ''Portrait of Édouard Manet'', ''[[Portraits, At the Stock Exchange]]'', ''[[L'Absinthe]]'', and pastels like ''[[Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs]]'' and ''[[Les Choristes]]''
*[[Alfred Dehodencq]] - ''[[Boabdil's Farewell to Granada]]''
*[[Eugène Delacroix]] – 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the [[Louvre]])
*[[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), ''[[Homage to Cézanne]]''
*[[André Derain]] – ''Charing Cross Bridge'', also known as ''Westminster Bridge''
*[[Édouard Detaille]] – ''The Dream''
*[[Albert Edelfelt]] - ''[[Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt]]''
*[[Henri Fantin-Latour]] - ''[[Around the Piano]]'', ''[[A Studio at Les Batignolles]]''
*[[Paul Gauguin]] – 24 paintings including ''[[Arearea]]'', ''[[Tahitian Women on the Beach]]''
*[[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] – ''Portrait of the Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild'', ''Reception of Condé in Versailles'', ''La Comtesse de Keller'', ''[[The Cock Fight]]'', ''[[Jerusalem (painting)|Jerusalem]]''
*[[Vincent van Gogh]] – 24 paintings including [[L'Arlésienne (painting)|''L'Arlésienne'']], ''[[Bedroom in Arles]]'', ''Self Portrait'', portrait of his friend [[Eugène Boch]], ''The Siesta'', ''[[The Church at Auvers]]'', ''View from the Chevet'', ''The Italian Woman'', ''[[Starry Night Over the Rhone|Starry Night]]'', ''[[Portrait of Dr. Gachet]]'', ''[[Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers]]'', ''[[Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase]]'', ''[[Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series)|Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy]]'', ''[[Van Gogh self-portrait (1889)|Self Portrait]]''
*[[Armand Guillaumin]] – 44 paintings
*[[Ferdinand Hodler]] – ''Der Holzfäller'' (The Woodcutter)
*[[Winslow Homer]] - ''Summer Night''
*[[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] – 4 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the [[Louvre]]) including ''[[The Source (Ingres)|The Source]]''
*[[Eugène Jansson]] – ''Proletarian Lodgings''
*[[Johan Barthold Jongkind]] – 9 paintings
*[[Gustav Klimt]] – 1 painting
*[[Maximilien Luce]] - ''[[The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame]]''
*[[Édouard Manet]] – 34 paintings including ''[[Olympia (painting)|Olympia]]'', [[The Balcony (painting)|''The Balcony'']], ''[[Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets]]'', ''[[The Luncheon on the Grass]]'', ''[[The Fifer]]'', ''[[The Reading (Manet painting)|The Reading]]''
*[[Henri Matisse]] - ''[[Luxe, Calme et Volupté]]''
*[[Gustave Doré]] - Master of Imagination collection
*[[Jean-François Millet]] – 27 paintings including [[The Angelus (painting)|''The Angelus'']], ''Spring'', ''[[The Gleaners]]''
*[[Piet Mondrian]] – 2 paintings
*[[Claude Monet]] – 86 paintings (another main collection of his paintings is in the [[Musée Marmottan Monet]]) including ''The Saint-Lazare Station'', The ''Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of 30 June 1878'', ''Wind Effect, Series of The Poplars'', ''Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue'', ''Blue Water Lilies'', ''[[Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, Paris)|Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe]]'', ''[[Haystacks (Monet series)|Haystacks]]'', ''[[The Magpie (Monet)|The Magpie]]'', ''[[Women in the Garden]]''
*[[Gustave Moreau]] – 8 paintings including ''[[L'Apparition]]''
*[[Berthe Morisot]] – 9 paintings
*[[Henri-Paul Motte]] - ''[[The Fiancée of Belus]]''
*[[Edvard Munch]] – 1 painting
*[[Henri Ottmann]] - ''[[The Luxembourg Station in Brussels]]''
*[[Camille Pissarro]] – 46 paintings including ''White Frost''
*[[Odilon Redon]] – 106 paintings including ''Caliban''
*[[Henri Regnault]] - ''[[Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada]]''
*[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] – 81 paintings including ''[[Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre]]'', ''[[The Bathers (Renoir)|The Bathers]]'', ''[[Dance in the City]]'', ''[[Dance in the Country]]'', ''[[Frédéric Bazille at his Easel]]'', ''[[Girls at the Piano]]'', ''[[The Swing (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)|The Swing]]''
*[[Henri Rousseau]] – 3 paintings
*[[Théo van Rysselberghe]] – 6 paintings
*[[Paul Sérusier]] – ''The Talisman, the Aven River at the Bois d'Amour''
*[[Georges Seurat]] – 19 paintings including [[The Circus (Seurat painting)|''The Circus'']]
*[[Paul Signac]] – 16 paintings including ''Women at the Well''
*[[Alfred Sisley]] – 46 paintings including ''Inondation at Port-Marly''
*[[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]] – 18 paintings including ''[[La Toilette (Toulouse-Lautrec)|La Toilette]]''
*[[Félix Vallotton]] – ''Misia at Her Dressing Table''
*[[Édouard Vuillard]] – 70 paintings
*[[File:Fonds_Ganne_-_La_Nature_se_dévoilant,_Luxembourg,_Paris_(g0911).jpg|thumb|Ernest Barrias, [[Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science|Nature Unveiling Herself]], 1899 ]][[File:Porte de l'enfer Musée d'Orsay 01.jpg|thumb|[[Auguste Rodin]], [[The Gates of Hell]] ]][[James McNeill Whistler]] – 3 paintings including ''Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother'', also known as ''[[Whistler's Mother]]''

===Sculptures===
[[File:Main Room of the Orsay Museum, Level O, Paris.webp|thumb|A view of the main room on level O of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, showcasing the sculptures on display.]]
Sculpture was in high demand in the 19th century and became widely used as a way to display a person's social and political standings. The style and ideology represented by many of the sculptures were out of fashion by the mid-20th century, and the sculptures were put into storage and no longer displayed. It wasn't until the conversion of the Orsay railway station into the Musée d'Orsay museum in the 1970s that many sculptures from the 19th century were placed on exhibit again. The substantial nave inside the new museum offered a perfect area for the display of sculptures. During the grand opening in December 1986 of the museum, 1,200 sculptures were present, brought in from collections such as [[Louvre|the Louvre]], state loans, and [[Musée du Luxembourg]]. The museum also obtained more than 200 sculptures before opening though donations of art connoisseurs, the lineage of artists, and people
in support of the Musée d'Orsay.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Musée d'Orsay: Sculpture|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/history-of-the-collections/sculpture.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=www.musee-orsay.fr}}</ref>

Since the grand opening in 1986 the museum has collected works from exchanges that other museums or institutions once showcased such as ''[[Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science]]'' by [[Louis-Ernest Barrias]] that was initially commissioned for [[Conservatoire national des arts et métiers|Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers]], as well as ''The Thinker'' and ''[[The Gates of Hell]]'' by [[Auguste Rodin]]. The museum also purchases specific works to fill gaps and finish the collections already in the museum such as one of the panels of ''Be Mysterious'' by [[Paul Gauguin]], the full set of [[Honoré Daumier]]'s ''Célébrités du Juste Milieu'', and ''Maturity'' by [[Camille Claudel]]. There are currently more than 2,200 sculptures in the Musée d'Orsay.<ref name=":0" />

Major sculptors represented in the collection include [[Alfred Barye]], [[François Rude]], [[Jules Cavelier]], [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]], [[Émile-Coriolan Guillemin]], [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Camille Claudel]], [[Sarah Bernhardt]], [[Aristide Maillol]] and [[Honoré Daumier]].

===Other works===
It also holds collections of:
*architecture and decorative arts
*photography
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==Selected collection highlights==
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File:Eugène Delacroix - The Lion Hunt - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Eugène Delacroix]], ''[[The Lion Hunt (Delacroix)|The Lion Hunt]]'', c. 1854
File:Théodore Chassériau - Tepidarium - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Théodore Chassériau]], ''Tepidarium'', 1853
File:JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES - El Manantial (Museo de Orsay, París, 1820-56. Óleo sobre lienzo, 163 x 80 cm).jpg|[[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]], ''[[The Source (Ingres)|The Source]]'', 1856
File:Jean-François Millet - Gleaners - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Jean-François Millet]], ''[[The Gleaners]]'', 1857
File:Edouard Manet - Olympia - Google Art Project 3.jpg|[[Édouard Manet]], ''[[Olympia (painting)|Olympia]]'', 1863
File:Monet dejeunersurlherbe.jpg|[[Claude Monet]], ''[[Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, Paris)|Le déjeuner sur l'herbe]]'', (right section), includes [[Gustave Courbet]], 1865-1866
File:Paul Cézanne 127.jpg|[[Paul Cézanne]], ''Portrait of [[Achille Emperaire]]'', 1868
File:Boudin BathersTrouville 1869.jpg|[[Eugène Boudin]], ''Bathers on the Beach at Trouville'', 1869
File:Whistlers Mother high res.jpg|[[James McNeill Whistler]], ''[[Whistler's Mother]]'', 1871
File:Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Planers - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Gustave Caillebotte]], ''[[Les raboteurs de parquet]] (The Floor Scrapers)'', 1875
File:EDGAR DEGAS - En un café o La Absenta (Museo de Orsay, París, 1873. Óleo sobre lienzo, 92 x 68.5 cm).jpg|[[Edgar Degas]], ''[[L'Absinthe]]'', 1876
File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Country Dance - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ''[[Dance in the Country]]'' (''[[Aline Charigot]] and Paul Lhote''), 1883
File:Serusier - the talisman.JPG|[[Paul Sérusier]], ''[[The Talisman (painting)|The Talisman/Le Talisman]]'', 1888
File:Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Portraits of Vincent van Gogh|''Self-portrait'']] (1889) by [[Vincent van Gogh]]
File:Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Vincent van Gogh]], ''[[The Church at Auvers]]'', 1890
File:Paul Gauguin 056.jpg|[[Paul Gauguin]], ''[[Tahitian Women on the Beach]]'', 1891
File:Georges Seurat - The Circus - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Georges Seurat]], ''[[The Circus (Seurat painting)|The Circus]]'', 1891
File:Paul Gauguin, 1894, Oviri (Sauvage), partially glazed stoneware, 75 x 19 x 27 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.jpg|[[Paul Gauguin]], ''[[Oviri (Gauguin)|Oviri (Sauvage)]]'', 1894
File:Georges Lacombe, 1894, 1896, L'Existence, carved wood (Bas-relief en bois de noyer), 68.5 x 141.5 x 6 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. DSC09000.jpg|[[Georges Lacombe (painter)|Georges Lacombe]], ''L'Existence'', 1894–1896
File:Albert Lebourg, before 1918, Paris, l'écluse de la Monnaie. Soleil d'hiver, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 115.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris..jpg|[[Albert Lebourg]], ''Paris, l'écluse de la Monnaie. Soleil d'hiver''
File:Rippl Female with Flower 1891.jpg|[[József Rippl-Rónai]], ''Female with Flower'', 1891
File:Breslau - Henry Davison.jpg|[[Louise Catherine Breslau]], ''Portrait of Henry Davison'', 1880
File:Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida - La vuelta de la pesca.jpg|[[Joaquín Sorolla]], ''La Vuelta de la Pesca'', 1894
File:Afrique Eugène Delaplanche musée d'Orsay RF3746.jpg|[[Eugène Delaplanche]], ''Africa'', 1878
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==Management==
The Directors have been:
* [[Françoise Cachin]]: 1986 – 1994
* [[Henri Loyrette]]: 1994 – 2001
* Serge Lemoine: 2001 – 2008
* Guy Cogeval: March 2008 – March 2017
* [[Laurence des Cars]]: March 2017 – September 2021
* Christophe Leribault: October 2021 – present<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 September 2021 |title=Christophe Leribault appointed President of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |url=https://www.culture.gouv.fr/en/Press/Press-releases2/Christophe-Leribault-appointed-President-of-the-Orsay-and-Orangerie-Museums-Valery-Giscard-d-Estaing |access-date=27 December 2023 |website=culture.gouv.fr |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Paul Dubois (sculptor)]]
* [[List of museums in Paris]]
* [[List of largest art museums]]
* [[List of most-visited art museums]]
* [[List of tourist attractions in Paris]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|http://www.musee-orsay.fr/}}
* [https://www.theparisianguide.com/s/musee-dorsay/ Musée d’Orsay - The Parisian Guide]
* [https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris?hl=en Virtual tour of the Musée d'Orsay] provided by [[Google Arts & Culture]]

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