Musée d’Orsay: Quick Facts

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Date	1986 - present
Areas Of Involvement	21 Notable Paintings in the Musée d’Orsay
Related People	Gaetana Aulenti • Henri Loyrette
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Musée d'Orsay: atrium

Painting by Gustave Courbet showing the artist at his easel in a crowded studio, surrounded by figures including a nude model, onlookers, and a child with a white dog.

Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

Édouard Manet: Olympia

Oil painting A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet shows a large group of mourners, clergy, and a dog gathered outdoors at a gravesite, with cliffs in the background.

Painting by Claude Monet showing a field of red poppies near Argenteuil, with two women and a child walking among the flowers under a partly cloudy sky.

James McNeill Whistler: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Painting by Jean-Francois Millet showing three peasant women bent over in a field, gathering leftover grain, with haystacks and workers in the distant background.

Gustave Caillebotee: Raboteurs de parquet

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