Museum of Orsay

|- |colspan=2 align=" center" bgcolor=" #ffffbb" | |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Country ||France |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | City || Paris |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Collections ||French and European art of 1848 with 1914 |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Many works ||4000 works presented permanently |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Surface ||57 400 m ² of usable surface |- |bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Date of opening || 1986 |- |bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | de
visiteurs Number per annum ||2 500.000 |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Address ||62 rue de Lille 75007 Paris |- | bgcolor=" #BBB2FF" | Official site ||http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ |- |colspan=2 align=" center" bgcolor=" #ffffbb" |See also: Museum - Museums of the world |} The museum of Orsay is a national Musée located at Paris, on the Left bank of the the Seine, in the VII {{E}} district. The collections of the museum of Orsay present the painting and the Western sculpture of 1848 to 1914, but also decorative arts, photography and architecture. One can see there chiefs of work like Olympia of Manet, Petite dancer fourteen years old of Degas, the Origin of the world of Billhook, impressionist painting…

The temporary exhibitions periodically light the work of an artist, or emphasize a current, a merchant, a question of history of Article.

An auditorium accommodates diversified demonstrations, concerts, cinema, shadow theater, conferences and colloques.des spectacles is specifically intended for a young public.

History

Arranged in old the Station of Orsay (1898), the museum of Orsay was inaugurated in 1986. The original building of the architect Victor Laloux was reconfigured (1983-1986) by the architects Renaud Bardon, Pierre Colboc, Jean-Paul Philippon prizes winner of the contests of architecture in 1979, joined by the interior designer Gae Aulenti, to allow the reconversion in museum.

In the night of October 6th, 2007, at the time of the Sleepless night, the individuals infiltrates in the museum and damages seriously a table of Claude Monet, the bridge of Argenteuil , going back to 1874 (torn on 10 centimetres).

Collections

The collections of the museum of Orsay come primarily from three establishments: the Museum of Louvre for works of artists born starting from 1820, or emerging in the world of art with the Second Republic; the museum of Jeu de Paume dedicated to the Impressionism since 1947; finally, the National museum of modern art for the most recent works. These rich person collections, enriched by many gifts and legacy, cover all the fields of the visual arts and applied arts: painting, sculpture, objets d'art and graphic designs but also furniture, architecture and photography. The policy of acquisition of the museum of Orsay is centered on obtaining major works and testimonys more modest like the funds of workshop, which make it possible to enrich or supplement the collection.

decorative Arts with the museum of Orsay

Inaugurated with the House of Marsan in 1905, the museum of decorative arts could have been built on the site of the station of Orsay inaugurated into 1900 before being transformed into museum en1986. the door of the Hell of Rodin, visible at the median level - Rodin terrace, was to open the access of them.

Since 1977, a collection of decorative objets d'art of the period 1848-1914 was made up with the museum of Orsay. Except the dining room Carpenter of 1900, reconstituted in a clean space (period room), the pieces of furniture and the objects are shown out of their context. Composed of works representative of the production of ceramics, glassmaking, jewelry and furniture, this collection testifies to the change of the production of objets d'art related to the industrial revolution, that of the fine arts applied to industry. It counts some chiefs of work ignored a long time or badly considered and presents also parts attesting the exceptional quality of the luxury goods industries of this time. The cutting museographic of the collections of objets d'art distinguishes by their localization those produced under the Second Empire (1852-1870) and in the first two decades from the Third Republic (1870-1940) from those posterior with the Art nouveau. The article decorative Arts with the museum of Orsay (1848-1889) presents objets d'art carried out between 1848 and the World Fair of 1889, a production concerned with eclecticism, orientalism or the japonism.

Principal painters exposed to the museum of Orsay

Francis Tattegrain

Pierre Bonnard, Eugene Boudin, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot , Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Edgar Degas , Eugene Delacroix, Henri Fantin-Latour, Antoni Gaudí , Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Hector Guimard , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Gustav Klimt , Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Jean-François Millet, Piet Mondrian , Claude Monet, Gustave Moreau, Berthe Morisot , Edvard Munch , Nadar, Camille Pissarro , Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, the customs officer Rousseau, Paul Sérusier, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec, James McNeill Whistler

Department Sculpture - Selection of works

Neoclassicism

- the Reaper , 1849, bronze
- Sapho , 1852, marble - the Reeling machine , 1863, bronzes - Virgile , 1861, marble

Eclecticism of the Second Empire

  • Paul Dubois, the Nogent-on-Seine, 1829-Paris, 1905
- Singer Florentin , 1865, bronzes argenté
- Hébé deadened , 1869, group out of marble, - Woman pricked by a snake , 1847, marble - Despair , 1869, marble - Tarcisius , 1868, marble - David , 1871, bronzes
  • Hippolyte Moulin, Paris, 1832-Charenton, 1884
- a lucky find with Pompéi , 1863, bronzes - Gallic Young person or With the GUI the new year , 1870-1875, marble, GUI and bill hook out of bronze disappeared - the Winner with the 1864, cockfight , bronzes - Young Tarentine , 1871, marble - Eve before the sin , 1869, marble
  • Augustin-Jean Black-Vauthier, Paris, 1831-1893
- Bacchante lying , 1892, marble

Eclecticism of the III Republic

- Genius keeping the secrecy of the tomb , 1879, marble. - the MUSE of the source, 1900, cast iron, marble, bronzes,
- Oedipus in Colone , 1885.
- Bust of Miss Rateau , plaster patiné
- the Vine , ground-cooked.
  • Emmanuel Fremiet, Paris, 1824-1910
- Saint-Michel embanking the dragon , 1897, enlarging out of hammered copper. - Nature revealing itself with Science , 1899, marble, onyx, granite, malachite, lapis lazuli-lazuli.
- Bust of Georges Clairin , painter, 1875, ground cuite
- Suzanne , 1895, marbre
- Hunters of eagles , 1900, plâtre
- Bust of Sarah Bernhardt , marble teinté
- the Dawn , marbles white and rose
- Dancer , Cléo de Mérode, plaster moulded on nature.

Realism

- the Blacksmith , 1886, study, plaster patiné
- the Republic , 1879, draft out of ground cuite
- the Large Peasant , 1897-1902, bronze
- Industry , 1892-1896, relief in bronze
- the harvest , 1895, relief in bronze
The Docker, 1905, bronze
It human Machine, 1902, bronze
- Caricatures , Small heads painted out of raw ground colorée

Rodin

- Bust of Mrs Vicuna , 1917, bronze
- Bust of Aime-Jules Dalou , 1917, bronze
- the bronze Age, 1877, bronze
- Bust of Jean-Paul Laurens , 1917, bronze
- the Thought (portrait of Camille Claudel) , 1886-1889, marbre
- Fugit amor , circa 1881, small group in bronze
- Monument in Balzac , 1897, model in plâtre
- the man who walks , 1905, bronze
- Door of the Hell , 1880-1917, High relief in plâtre

Symbolism

Young girl crying , 1894, bronze.
the pain of Nausicaa , 1884, bronzes. the Sphinx , 1902, relief out of plaster. the Cradle , 1906, plaster,
the Legend savernoise , 1914, wood of pear tree.
  • Jean Carriès, (Lyon, 1855-Paris, 1894)
Bishop , 1883-1889, bronzes. Louis Welden Hawkins , (1849-1910, painter), 1893, mask out of bronze. Towards the ideal by the suffering , 1900-1906, rosy marble of Comblanchien.
  • Paul Darted, Olmet, 1888-Lodève, 1963)
the Eternal pain , 1913, gypsum. the Spirit of the night , 1898-1905, bronzes. Cassandre , 1886-1900, bronzes.
  • Maurice Maignan, a gueux , 1897, statuette sitting, bronzes.
  • Pierre-Felix Masseau, (Lyon, 1869-Paris, 1937)
the Secrecy , 1894, polychrome mahogany tree and ivory.
  • Frantz Metzner, the weight of Sorrow , circa 1912, plaster patinated noir
  • Carl Miles, (Laga, 1875 - Lindingö, 1955).
Young girl with a cat , circa 1900, bronze.
Beggar , bronze.
Knelt with the fountain , 1898, bronze
Carrying in addition to , 1897, bronze
the Calcareous Pain , circa 1893, oolitic polychrome
Beggar and her child or Misery , 1892, bronze.
Christ , circa 1889, patinated plaster.

Primitivism

Idol with the shell , (1892-1893) wood of iron, gives luster to and os
 Idol with the pearl , (1892-1893) painted and gilded wood, pearl, chain in or
 Be mysterious , 1890, wood of lime polychrome
 Mask of Tehura , (1891-1893), wood of pua polychrome
House of enjoying, 1901, relief out of painted wood of sequoia gigantéa. the Existence (1894-1896) wood of noyer
 Iris (1893-1894) mahogany tree polychrome

The return to the Style

- Apollo , 1909, bronzes doré
- Pénélope , (1907-1926), bronze
Forces it will , (1914-1915), bronzes, square of the musée
it Victoire , (1914-1915), bronzes, square of the musée
- Héraclés archer , 1909, bronzes and dorure
- Bather on a rock , bronze
- the Offering , bronze
- Bust of Federico Zandomenighi , painter, 1890, plaster. - Carrying water , 1912, bronze
Dances it , 1911-1913, relief in marbre
- the Mediterranean or the Thought , 1905-1927, marbre
- Ile-de-France , 1925-1933, pierre
- Bather with the raised arms , 1900, bronze
it desire , 1905-1907, relief in plomb

Directors

Exposures

Exposures in progress to the museum of Orsay

Next exposures

  • De Cézanne with Picasso - Masterpieces of the Vollard gallery, from June 19th to September 16th, 2007

  • the Hand from June 19th to September 30th, 2007

  • World Fairs, real and utopian architectures from June 19th to September 16th, 2007

  • Time of harmony: Paradise of artists at the 19th century. From September 29th, 2006 to April 8th, 2007 (Kobe, Tokyo)

Exposures since 2000

See too

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Insecula: Museum of Orsay
  • the museum of Orsay has 20 years Ina Archives Tele
  • Photos of the museum of Orsay

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