Above: Paris from the Observatory, by Victor Navlet, 1855. Note in the southern part of Paris, how much greenspace and countryside is open below the Jardin du Luxembourg.
Artwork inside Musée d'Orsay ...
... 1 Furniture from architect Antoni Gaudi of Barcelona.
... 2 Les Deux Soeurs (The Two Sisters), by James Tissot, 1863.
... 3 Le Bal, by James Tissot, 1878.
... 4 Les Almées, by Paul Bouchard, 1893.
... 5 Exécution sans Jugement sous les Rois Maures du Grenade (Execution without Trial under Moorish Kings of Granada), by Henri Regnault, 1870.
... 6 La Lavandara (The Laundress), by Ernest Hébert, 1869.
... 7 Les Filles d'Alvito, by Ernest Hébert, 1854.
... 8 Berthe Morisot au Bouquet de Violettes, by Édouard Manet, 1872. Morisot was Manet's sister-in-law and one of the first impressionists.
... 9 and 10 Dante and Virgil, by William Bouguereau, 1850. The reception to the dark and violent painting was not positive ... after this Bouguereau
stuck to beautiful, decorative paintings that sold for excellent prices, like the next one.
... 11 and 12 The Birth of Venus, by William Bouguereau, 1879.
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