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Musée d'Orsay: Ground Floor Front Gallery
Paris, France - September 2016
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| The original clock at the ground floor from its station days is by itself a beautiful pieced of art and craftsmanship. And it's still telling the time perfectly. |
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris, a former railway station converted into an art museum houses many artwork built 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 Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, and many other masters. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
Tip: When visiting the museum, go to the 5th Floor first as it houses art work by the impressionist.
These are the photos taken of the artwork at the museum, for presentation purposes and due to photography angle, many of these have been cropped, and edited to compensate for low lighting. It is better to visit the museum as nothing beats seeing the originals.
This blog comes in several pages. The ground floor of the museum is very large and to manage the many number of pieces on display, I have separated the Ground Floor into several sections. This page is on the art pieces seen at the FRONT SECTION OF THE GROUND FLOOR gallery (known as the Luxemborg Rooms) ; click below to navigate to other sections:
< Go to Gr Flr Balconies | Go To Gr Flr Main | Go to Gr Flr Rear >
For easier orientation within the gallery, here is a floor layout plan of Level 0 (Ground Floor). The rooms are numbered from #1 to #23.
(Click here for Musee d'Orsay interactive Level 0 Floor Plan)
Here are the beautiful art work on display at the FRONT SECTION of the Ground Floor. Enjoy!
"Gérôme exécutant Les Gladiateurs" ("Gérôme sculpting The Gladiators") - bronze sculpture by Jean-Léon Gérôme & Aimé Morot (c.1878-1909).
"Lion Assis" ("Seated Lion") - plaster statue by Antoine-Louis Barye (1847).
"La Liberté éclairant le monde" ("The Liberty Lighting The World") - bronze statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1889).
This is a smaller copy of the Statue of Liberty, made by the same artist.
"Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe" - plaster bust by Pierre-Jean David Angers (c.1829-1931).
"Virgile" ("Virgil") - cast bronze panel bust by Antoine-Augustin Préault (1853).
"Dante" - cast bronze panel bust by Antoine-Augustin Préault (1853).
"Femme piqué par un serpent" ("Women Stung by a Snake) - marble statue by Auguste Clésinger (1847).
Front view of "Femme piqué par un serpent".
Front bottom view of "Femme piqué par un serpent".
"Penelope" - marble statue by Jules Cavelier (1849).
"Sapho" - marble statue by James Pradier (1852).
"Cornelie, mere des Gracques" (Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi") - marble statue by Jules Cavelier (1861).
"Anacréon" - marble statue by Eugène Guillaume (1851).
"La devideuse" ("The Deviant") - bronze statue by Jules Salmson (1863).
"Napoléon 1st à cheval" ("Napoleon 1st On Horseback) - plaster statue by Antoine-Louis Barye (1863-1865).
"Les Gracques" ("The Gracchi") - cast bronze double busts by Eugène Guillaume (1855).
"Sortie du bain" ("Out of the Bath") - marble statue by Paul Cabet.
"Le Faucheur" ("The Grim Reaper") - cast bronze statue by Eugène Guillaume (1855).
"La jeunesse d'Aristote" (A Youthful Aristotle) - marble statue by Charles Degeorge (1875).
"Virgile" ("Virgil") - marble statue by Gabriel-Jules Thomas (1860).
"Le Désespoir" ("The Despair") - marble statue by Jean-Joseph Perraud (1869).
Front view of "Le Désespoir" ("The Despair").
"La jeune Tarentine" ("The Young Tarentine") - marble statue by Alexandre Schoenewerk (1871).
"David" - cast bronze statue by Antonin Mercié (1873).
"Tarcisius, martyr chretien" (Tarcisius, Christian Martyr) - marble statue by Alexandre Falguière (1867).
Front view of "Tarcisius, martyr chretien" (Tarcisius, Christian Martyr).
"Madame Jules Cavelier" - marble bust by Pierre-Jules Cavelier (1852).
"Les Romains de La Décadence" ("The Roman Decadence") - oil on canvas painting by Thomas Couture (1815 & 1879).
"Ugolin" - cast bronze statue by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1862).
"Buste de la princesse Mathilde" ("Bust of Princess Mathilde") - marble bust with gilde part by Louis Fulconis (1861).
"Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy" ("Joan of Arc in Domremy) - marble statue by Henri Chapu (1870).
"La Comédie humaine / Le Masque" ("The Human Comedy / The Mask) - marble statue by Ernest Christophe (1876).
"Saint Jean-Baptiste enfant" ("A young St. John the Baptist") - cast bronze statue by Paul Dubois (1864).
"Trouvaille à Pompei" ("A Lucky Find in Pompei") - cast bronze statue by Hippolyte Moulin (1863).
"Saint Jean-Baptiste enfant" ("A young St. John the Baptist") - marble statue by Jules Lafrance (1878).
"Vainqueur au combat de coqs" ("Winner of the Cock Fights) - cast bronze statue by Alexandre Falguière (1864).
"Abel mort" ("Abel's Death") - marble statue by Émile Feugère des Forts (1865).
"Ève après le péché" ("Eve after the sin") - marble statue by Eugène Delaplanche (1868).
Front angle view "Ève après le péché" ("Eve after the sin").
"Hébé endormie" ("Hébé Asleep") - marble statue by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1869).
"Bacchante" - marble statue by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1863).
"Secret d'en haut" ("Secret From Above") - marble statue by Hippolyte Moulin (1875).
"Narcisse: ("Narcissus") - marble statue by Paul Dubois (1863).
"Pan et oursons" ("Pan and Bears) - marble statue by Emmanuel Frémiet (1867).
"Negre du Soudan" ("Negro of Sudan") - bronze & marble-onyx of Algeria statue by Charles Cordier (1856).
Close up look of "Negre du Soudan" ("Negro of Sudan").
"Capresse des colonies" ("Caprine of the Colonies") - bronze & marble-onyx of Algeria statue by Charles Cordier (1861).
"Arabe d'El Aghout en burnous" - bronze & marble-onyx of Algeria statue by Charles Cordier (1860).
Close up look of detailed carving of the face of "Arabe d'El Aghout en burnous".
This blog comes in several pages. The ground floor of the museum is very large and to manage the many number of pieces on display, I have separated the Ground Floor into several sections. This page is on the art pieces seen at the FRONT SECTION OF THE GROUND FLOOR gallery (known as the Luxemborg Rooms) ; click below to navigate to other sections:
MUSEE d'ORSAY
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