Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay
By: edited by Serge Lemoine ; translated from the French by Toula Ballas.
Contributors: Lemoine, Serge.; Musée d'Orsay.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 767
Subjects: Musée d'Orsay -- Catalogs; Painting, French -- 19th century -- Catalogs; Painting, French -- 20th century -- Catalogs; Painting -- France -- Paris -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Work titles: Peinture au Musée d'Orsay. English.
Description: "The Musee d'Orsay boasts the greatest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art in the world, unparalleled in its diversity and quality. Since its opening in 1986 in a spectacularly renovated train station, the museum has welcomed more than fifty million visitors to its collection of works by Bouguereau, Courbet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Redon, Whistler, Gauguin and other artists of the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century." "In this deluxe volume, the museum's director, Serge Lemoine, and his team of curators and specialists examine this extraordinary collection, ranging from the primacy of Academic painting through the shock of Impressionism to the rise of modern art. With 830 full-colour illustrations of masterpieces by some of the world's best-loved artists - from Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles to Cezanne's Apples and Oranges - this is the definitive guide to paintings in one of the world's most popular museums."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.

Translation of: Peinture au Musée d'Orsay.