Above: Haystacks, End of Summer, by Claude Monet, 1891. Monet did 25 paintings of haystacks with different lighting conditions. Monet's
Impression: Sunrise and a caustic comment >by an art critic solidified the name Impressionist. Because their paintings were being consistently
refused to be shown at the Paris Salon, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas organized the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, with Sisley and
Morisot also showing (Manet wanted to persuade the Salon of the merit of his work and declined to participate with the Impressionists).
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1 is a view the Eiffel Tower from a 5th floor window in the museum.
2 is the still working main clock originally in the d'Orsay train station, by the station's architect, Victor Laloux, 1900.
Artwork inside Musée d'Orsay ...
... 3 Jane Avril Dancing, by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, 1892. Avril was a friend of the painter, a headlining dancer at the Moulin Rouge, famous for
her frenetic, unrestrained dancing.
... 4 Two of fifteen panels by Ordilon Redon, 1899-1901.
... 5 In the Belly of Paris, by Albert Robida An illustration based on Emile Zola's novel La Ventre de Paris (1873).
... 6 La Toilette, by Pierre Bonnard, 1914.
... 7 L'Homme et la Femme, by by Pierre Bonnard, 1900.
... 8 Madame Renoir, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1916.
... 9 and 10 ... L'Âge mûr (The Mature Age), by Camille Claudel, 1897. Claudel was sculptor Auguste Rodin's student, they worked together extensively, and they started
a reportedly torrid affair. But he dumped her and returned to his wife. This work shows a young woman imploring an older man not to leave her,
as he's led away by an old emaciated woman.
... 11 The Gates of Hell, by Auguste Rodin, begun in 1880, this plaster cast completed in 1917 after Rodin's death.
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