Musée d'Orsay

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The Musée d'Orsay is a renowned Parisian museum housed in a former railway station, famous for its extensive collection of 19th- and early 20th-century art, including major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works.


Statements (62)
Predicate Object
instanceOf art museum
former railway station
museum in Paris
architect Lucien Magne
Victor Laloux
Émile Bénard
buildingCompletionDate 1900
city Paris
collectionFocus 19th-century art
Art Nouveau
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
early 20th-century art
collectionType architecture
decorative arts
painting
photography
sculpture
country France
formerFunctionOfBuilding railway station
hasFeature central nave with iron-and-glass roof
large station clock overlooking the main hall
heritageDesignation Monument historique (France)
heritageDesignationDate 1978
inauguratedBy François Mitterrand
languageOfWebsite English
French
locatedIn 7th arrondissement of Paris
Paris
locatedNear Jardin des Tuileries
Louvre Museum
Seine River
locatedOn Left Bank of the Seine
museumConversionArchitect ACT Architecture
Gae Aulenti
notableArtistInCollection Auguste Rodin
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Georges Seurat
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Cézanne
Paul Gauguin
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Vincent van Gogh
Édouard Manet
notableWorkHeld Bal du moulin de la Galette
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Olympia
Starry Night Over the Rhône
The Card Players (Cézanne version)
Whistler's Mother
occupiesBuilding Gare d'Orsay
openingDate 1986-12-09
operatedBy Établissement public du musée d'Orsay et du musée de l'Orangerie
ownedBy French state
postalCode 75007
rank one of the most visited museums in France
streetAddress 1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
timePeriodCovered 1848–1914
visitorCount over 3 million visitors per year
website https://www.musee-orsay.fr

Referenced by (53)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
A Burial at Ornans
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Musée d'Orsay collection")
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years ("Musée d'Orsay, Paris (one bronze cast)")
L’Absinthe ("Musée d’Orsay collection")
Olympia (painting) ("Musée d’Orsay collection")
The Bellelli Family ("Musée d’Orsay collection")
The Dance Class ("Musée d'Orsay collection")
The Floor Scrapers ("Musée d’Orsay collection")
The Models
The Origin of the World ("Musée d’Orsay")
The Painter's Studio ("Musée d’Orsay collection")
The Tub ("Musée d’Orsay")
Whistler's Mother ("Musée d'Orsay collection")
collection
A Burial at Ornans
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
L’Absinthe ("Musée d’Orsay")
Olympia (painting) ("Musée d’Orsay")
The Bellelli Family ("Musée d’Orsay")
The Dance Class
The Floor Scrapers ("Musée d’Orsay")
The Models
The Origin of the World ("Musée d’Orsay")
The Painter's Studio ("Musée d’Orsay")
Whistler's Mother
location
7th arrondissement of Paris ("Musée d’Orsay")
Left Bank of the Seine ("Musée d’Orsay")
contains
Léon Bonnat
René Lalique ("Musée d’Orsay")
hasWorkInCollection
Houses of Parliament series ("Musée d’Orsay")
Mont Sainte-Victoire series ("Musée d’Orsay")
inCollection
Gae Aulenti ("Musée d’Orsay interior design")
Victor Laloux ("Gare d'Orsay")
notableWork
ACT Architecture ("Gare d'Orsay")
ACT Architecture
workedOnBuilding
ACT Architecture
associatedWith
The Origin of the World ("Musée d’Orsay RF 1995-3")
catalogCode
École du Louvre ("Musée d’Orsay")
closelyLinkedTo
Gae Aulenti ("Musée d’Orsay galleries and public spaces")
designed
Water Lilies (Monet) ("Musée d’Orsay")
exhibited at
Whistler's Mother
exhibitedAt
Haystacks series
inCollectionOf
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
located in
Musée de l’Orangerie ("Musée d’Orsay")
locatedNear
The Japanese Bridge
locationOfSomeWorks
Boulevard Saint‑Germain ("Musée d’Orsay (area)")
near
Louvre Museum
nearbyLandmark
Beaux-Arts ("Gare d'Orsay (former), Paris")
notableExample
1900 Exposition Universelle ("Gare d'Orsay")
notableStructure
Musée d'Orsay ("Gare d'Orsay")
occupiesBuilding
French Ministry of Culture ("Musée d’Orsay")
oversees
RER C ("Musée d’Orsay")
servesTouristAttraction
Paris
touristAttraction

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