Displaying works created between 1848 and 1914, the Musée d’Orsay includes within its extraordinary collection of more than ten thousand objects, the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings revered by art lovers everywhere. Housed in a magnificently rehabilitated former train station, there is no finer grouping of the breathtaking canvases of Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, […]
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Masculine / Masculine – The Nude Man in Art at the Orsay Museum – Paris
September 24, 2013 through January 12, 2014 - Featuring masterpieces of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography from the Musée d’Orsay’s own collection as well as the collections of other leading French cultural institutions, “Masculine/Masculine – The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day,” takes an interpretive, philosophical, sociological and playful approach in its […]
The Hays Collection at the Musée d’Orsay – Paris
April 16, 2013 through August 18, 2013 – View the private collection of outstanding 19th and early 20th century works of French art acquired over the last thirty years by a pair of American art lovers, many on view publicly in France for the first time since their expatriation. The Hays Collection at the Musée d’Orsay […]
Impressionism and Fashion at the Musee d’Orsay – Paris
This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on how Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir and their creative contemporaries portrayed modern life and particularly fashionable dress between 1860 and 1880. Although they did not strive to realistically render clothing, the Impressionists nevertheless did document the fashions and attitudes of their time. They achieved this through their attention to the “daily […]
Paris Art Exhibitions
CURRENT PARIS ART EXHIBITIONS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FIRST PARISIANS AT THE CARNAVALET MUSEUM SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2014 View a display of the archaeological discoveries made in 2008 from a site beside the Seine in the heart of Paris including the oldest human remains ever discovered in the city. Belonging to […]
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