Musée D'orsay
Koenemann · Print & ebook · October 1, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- Explore Orsay paintings, sculptures, and decorative art in their historical, aesthetic, and stylistic contexts.
- Themes
- Impressionist art, Museum collections, 19th- and early-20th-century art
- Genres
- Permanent Collections
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Celebrated the world over for its impressionist masterpieces, the Orsay museum keeps thousands of paintings, sculptures and decorative art from the greatest artists of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Rediscover the 300 most beautiful works of the Musée d'Orsay within the historical, aesthetic and stylistic context of the time of Gustave Courbet to Paul Gauguin, van Gogh to Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, or Maurice Denis.
Orsay’s Art Collection
Explore Orsay paintings, sculptures, and decorative art in their historical, aesthetic, and stylistic contexts.
Come here for
- Paintings from the Musée d’Orsay
- Sculptures from the Musée d’Orsay
Expect
- Historical context spanning the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Aesthetic and stylistic context
Where it sits
| Permanent Collections | 84% |
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Publisher categories
- Permanent Collections
- Modern Art History (to 1945)
- Authors
- Guillaume Morel
- Publisher
- Koenemann
- Published
- October 1, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Impressionist art · Museum collections · 19th- and early-20th-century art
- Reading lane
- Permanent Collections