Painting in the Musee D'Orsay
Description
The opening of the Musee d'Orsay was a major development in the history of French museums. The national collections from the middle of the 19th C to the early years of the 20th -- up until 1986 split between the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume, the Palais de Tokyo and other museums -- were brought together for the first time in this marvelous building that was once the Gare d'Orsay. The collections provide a unique survey of that extraordinarily rich and often contradictory period of art history. From Ingres, Delacroix and Corot in their later years to the early years of Matisse and ...
ISBN(s)
0856672289, 9780856672286
