Paris France - Museum d'Orsay

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This morning we are going to be at Museum d'Orsay when it opens. This view across the Seine is the ever-present Sacre Coeur.

Museum d'Orsay contains Impressionist masterpieces. The museum was originally a railroad station built in 1900 to handle passengers for the Paris World Exhibition.

Here is Margaret in front of "Le Dejuener sur l'herbe" (Lunch on the grass) by Edouard Manet. This painting created a scandal when it was first shown. Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe became a benchmark in academic discussions of modern art. The nude in Manet's painting was no nymph, or mythological being...she was a modern Parisian women cast into a contemporary setting with two clothed men. Many found this to be quite vulgar and begged the question "Who's for lunch?" It was also Dejeuner which set the stage for the advent of Impressionism.

This painting made in Saint-Rémy in September 1889 by Vincent van Gogh is a self-portrait.

This painting by Vincent van Gogh is an impressionist painting of Dr. Paul Gachet. Gachet was a generous patron and friend to all those Impressionist artists with whom he came into contact This painting was made in 1890 and Gachet died shortly after it was made.

Claude Monet's "Blue Water Lilies".

I didn't record the name or artist who made this painting but for some reason it caught my eye - especially the tired gentleman in the foreground. *** Someone wrote in on the fpg to inform me the painting is titled "Harvesters' Country", painted in 1882 by Léon Lhermitte

I really liked this picture - the army sleeps with a few pickets on duty, while at the top in their dreams they relive the days' battle.

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