The Musee d'Orsay contains one of the most magnificent collections of 19th- and early 20th-century art in the world. Limited to the years between 1848 and 1914, the collection showcases Impressionist and Postimpressionist favorites by Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Signac. In addition, Realist, Nabis, Symbolist, and Fauvist movements are represented in works by Millet, Gauguin, Redon, and Matisse. The light-filled galleries are also ideal for viewing the sculpture. Works in other media include furniture, objets d'art, architecture, photography, jewelry, and glassware. This book's color plates depict many of the masterpieces, and the text traces the roots of the core collection within the context of developing and changing art trends.

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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 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.

This comprehensive book traces the origins and progression of photography from its humble beginnings in daguerreotypes to the gradual mastering of photographic portraits, techniques, and negatives. The wider use of photography in journalism, for documenting architecture and art movements, and its capacity to produce piercing perspectives on the social and political climate of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are all carefully evaluated, as well as the work of amateurs such as Zola who tried their hand at this revolutionary art form. Twenty-five years after the inauguration of France's first permanent exhibition devoted solely to photography, the Musée d'Orsay continues in its innovative and original thread. This book bears testimony to the unique nature of the museum's collection, noted for its rare finds, their quality, and the sheer number of works it holds (more than fifty-five thousand). The collection's most-treasured works are exposed here, including a portrait of Baudelaire by Nadar and the recently acquired portrait of Man Ray by Stieglitz.

Hundreds of paintings are reproduced in a guide to the Paris museum and accompanied by essays by a renowned art historian on Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and many other topics

Marie and her mother go to look at Monet's Water Lilies painting at the Orsay Museum. Includes factual information about art and culture in France.

English guide highlighting the museum, printed November 1988. Includes floor plans, in color.