21 Notable Paintings in the Musée d’Orsay

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Two Young Girls at the Piano

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)

Édouard Manet: Olympia

Painting by Gustave Moreau showing a woman in ornate robes holding the severed head of Orpheus and his lyre, standing barefoot in a rocky, dreamlike landscape.

Fantin-Latour, Henri: A Studio at Batignolles

James McNeill Whistler: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Painting by Edgar Degas showing a ballet class with young dancers in white tutus practicing in a spacious studio, while an older instructor stands at the center with a cane.

Fantin-Latour, Henri: Roses in a Bowl

Vincent van Gogh: The Bedroom

21 Notable Paintings in the Musée d’Orsay: References & Edit History

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