Musée d'Orsay

The **Musée d'Orsay** is an art museum in Paris. The building was built in 1900 and was first used as a railway station. In 1986, it became a museum, and it is still very famous today.

The museum exhibits artworks of the 19th century including Impressionist paintings. The Impressionist paintings include works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Manet, and Van Gogh. That's why the Orsay is called the 'Impressionism museum'.

The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. Its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces is the largest in the world. It features work by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, Van Gogh and many others.

### Paintings: major painters and works represented

- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres  — 4 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
- Eugène Delacroix  — 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
- Théodore Chassériau  — 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
- Gustave Courbet — 48 paintings including _The Artist's Studio_, _A Burial at Ornans_, _Young Man Sitting_, _L'Origine du monde_
- Jean-François Millet — 27 paintings including _Spring_, _The Gleaners_
- Honoré Daumier — 8 paintings
- Eugène Boudin — 33 paintings including _Trouville Beach_
- Camille Pissarro — 46 paintings including _White Frost_
- Édouard Manet — 34 paintings including _Olympia_, _The Balcony_, _Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets_, _The Luncheon on the Grass_
- Berthe Morisot  — 9 paintings
- Edgar Degas — 43 paintings including _The Parade_, also known as _Race Horses in front of the Tribunes_, The _Bellelli Family_, _The Tub_, _Portrait of Edouard Manet_, _Portraits, At the Stock Exchange_, _L’Absinthe_
- Paul Cézanne — 56  paintings including _Apples and Oranges_
- Claude Monet — 86 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Musée Marmottan Monet) including _The Saint-Lazare Station_, The _Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878_, _Wind Effect, Series of The Poplars_, _Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue_, _Blue Water Lilies_
- Alfred Sisley — 46  paintings including _Inondation at Port-Marly_
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir — 81 paintings including _Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre_
- Ferdinand Hodler — _Der Holzfäller_ (The Woodcutter)
- Gustave Caillebotte — 7 paintings including _The Floor Planers_
- Édouard Detaille — _The Dream_
- Vincent van Gogh — 24 paintings including _Self Portrait_, portrait of his friend Eugene Boch, _The Siesta_, _The Church at Auvers_, _View from the Chevet_, _The Italian Woman_, _Starry Night Over the Rhone_, _Portrait of Dr. Gachet_, _Bedroom in Arles_
- Paul Gauguin — 24 paintings including _Tahitian Women on the Beach_
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — 18 paintings
- Paul Signac — 16 paintings including _Women at the Well_
- Georges-Pierre Seurat — 19 paintings including _The Circus_
- Edouard Vuillard — 70 paintings
- Henri Rousseau — 3 paintings
- Pierre Bonnard — 60 paintings including _The Chequered Blouse_
- André Derain — _Charing Cross Bridge_, also known as _Westminster Bridge_
- Edvard Munch — 1 painting
- Gustav Klimt — 1 painting
- Piet Mondrian — 2 paintings
- James McNeill Whistler — 3 paintings including _Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother_, also known as _Whistler's Mother_