The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
Pierre Lanith Petit was a French photographer. He is sometimes credited as Pierre Lamy Petit.
Jean-Antonin Carles was a French sculptor.
Portrait of Émile Zola is a painting of Émile Zola by Édouard Manet. Manet submitted the portrait to the 1868 Salon.
Gustave Achille Guillaumet was a French painter. He is best known for his paintings of North Africa.
For centuries, Paris has attracted artists from around the world, arriving in the city to educate themselves and to seek inspiration from its artistic resources and galleries. As a result, Paris has received a reputation as the "City of Art". Home to some of the world's most famous museums and galleries, including the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, the city today remains home to a thriving community of artists. Paris is recognized globally for its public landmarks and masterpieces of architecture including the Arc de Triomphe and a symbol of France, the Eiffel Tower.
Alfred Jean Garnier (1848–1908) was a French enameller, and pupil and collaborator of Paul Grandhomme.
Dante and Virgil in Hell is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck was a painter who was born in Glückstadt in the Duchy of Holstein, which at the time was under Danish control but part of the German Confederation. He lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was both French and German by nationality.
Haymaking in the Auvergne is an 1855 oil painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur. It measures 215 cm × 422 cm.
Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet is an 1860 portrait by Édouard Manet of his parents, Auguste Manet (1797–1862) and Eugénie Désirée Fournier (1811–1895). It was first exhibited at the 1861 Paris Salon alongside The Spanish Singer. It was initially owned by the painter's brother Eugène Manet before passing to Ernest Rouart's wife Julie Manet. In 1977, ten years after Julie's death, the Rouart-Manet family donated it to the French state, which moved it from the galerie du Jeu de Paume to the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris, in 1985, where it still hangs.
Jules Worms was a French academic painter and illustrator. Born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1849 at the age of seventeen, where he studied under Jean-Adolphe Lafosse (1810–79). He made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1859. Worms is best known for genre scenes depicting Spanish life, often comical and painted in a highly realistic manner with many details and bright colors.
The Virgin with a lily is a marble sculpture on a pedestal executed in 1878 by the French sculptor Eugène Delaplanche. The statue, depicting a virgin holding a lily, was exhibited at the Le Salon peinture et de sculpture de 1878, where it won the médaille d'honneur. It is currently shown at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Estelle de Barescut was a French painter and lithographer. She exhibited her lithographs at the Salon de Paris in 1834 and 1835, and her paintings from 1842 to 1851.
Homage to Delacroix is an 1864 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour painted in homage to the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix who died the year before. The work features a group of painters and writers, all of whom went on to become notable themselves, gathered around a portrait of the late Delacroix. The painting was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1864. Today the painting is part of the permanent collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
The Winnower is the title of three oil on canvas paintings by French artist Jean-François Millet, created between 1847 and 1848. The first, now held at the National Gallery, in London, was painted in 1847-1848, and presented at the Salon of 1848. Subsequently, Millet created two other versions, one kept at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, much smaller than the original, and the other at the Musée d'Orsay, also in Paris.
The Excommunication of Robert the Pious is an 1875 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, held by the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts the excommunication of Robert II of France in the year 998.
The Return from Fishing: Hauling the Boat is an oil on canvas by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla in 1894. Large in size, 265 cm × 403 cm, it has been exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay since 1977. The painting depicts the return of a fishing boat with a lateen sail. Two oxen tow the boat on a beach surrounded by fishermen.
Boabdil's Farewell to Granada(French: L'Adieu du roi Boabdil à Grenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Dehodencq. It was first exhibited at the Salon of 1869 and is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
Remorse(French: Le Remords) is an oil on canvas painting by Louis-Marie Baader. It is a very large canvas, 376 cm high and 295 cm wide. It was first exhibited at the Salon of 1875 and was purchased by the state from the artist.
