Collectif (Auteur) – Mini Guide Orsay (espagnol) – RMN

This new guide presents all the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, which cover a period from 1848 to 1914 and bring together works belonging to all the arts: paintings, sculpture, architecture, photography, decorative arts. The first part of the book also retraces the history of the place and the building: first a station of the Orléans railways built by the architect Victor Laloux between 1898 and 1900, then disused on the eve of the Second World War, this building only became a museum in 1989, after a complete interior renovation. The Musée d'Orsay's international reputation is due in particular to its collection of Impressionist works, the largest in the world with nearly 1,100 paintings. This book proposes to rediscover masterpieces of painting and sculpture such as Édouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass and the Olympia, Degas' The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, The Origin of the World, A Burial at Ornans, Courbet's Painter's Studio, and Cézanne's Card Players.