Musée d’Orsay
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Musée d’Orsay Julianne Goyena
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Musée d’Orsay. By Julianne Goyena. Before it was a museum…. Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois Port - Quai d’Orsay 1708-1800 Station and Hotel Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur different purposes: - a mailing centre - a set for several films - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Before it was a museum…• Garden - Henry IV’s queen, Marguerite de Valois• Port - Quai d’Orsay 1708-1800 • Station and Hotel
– Across Louvre and Palais de la Légion d'honneur – different purposes:
- a mailing centre- a set for several films- for auctioneers
• Opened as a museum December 1986• 3 levels• 2,239,050 visitors in average per year• Escalators and elevators• 5 exhibitions at the museum (during the time of
our visit)
Other Artists• Paul Cézanne • Alfred Sisley• Antonio de La Gandara • Edgar Degas • Jean-François Millet • Claude Monet• Pierre-Auguste Renoir• Auguste Rodin• Georges Seurat