What is Musée d'Orsay?
[[Image:MuseedOrsayParisFrance.jpg|thumb|Musée d'Orsay Clock, Victor Laloux, Main Hall]] The '''Musée d'Orsay''' is an [[art]] [[museum]] in [[Paris]]. The building was built in 1900 and was first used as a railway station. In 1986, it became a museum, and it is still very famous today. The museum exhibits artworks of the 19th century including [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] paintings. The Impressionist paintings include works by [[Monet]], [[Degas]], [[Renoir]], [[Cézanne]], [[Manet]], and [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]]. That's why the Orsay is called the '[[Impressionism]] museum'. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including [[painting]]s, [[sculpture]]s, [[furniture]], and [[photography]]. Its extensive collection of [[impressionist]] and [[post-Impressionist|post-impressionist]] masterpieces is the largest in the world. It features work by such painters such as [[Monet]], [[Manet]], [[Degas]], [[Renoir]], [[Cézanne]], [[Seurat]], [[Alfred Sisley|Sisley]], [[Gauguin]], [[Van Gogh]] and many others. [[Image:MuseeDOrsay.jpg|thumb|center|600px|Orsay Museum, seen from the right bank of the Seine river]] ==Collection== [[Image:Starry Night Over the Rhone.jpg|right|thumb|[[Vincent van Gogh]]: <br /> ''[[Starry Night Over the Rhone]]''<br /> [[Arles]], September 1888]] [[Image:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg|thumb|right|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]:<br /> ''[[Bal du moulin de la Galette]]'', 1876]] [[Image:Manet, Edouard - Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (The Picnic) (1).jpg|thumb|right|[[Édouard Manet]] <br />''[[The Luncheon on the Grass]]''<br /> 1862-3]] [[File:Les Joueurs de cartes, par Paul Cézanne.jpg|thumb|right|[[Paul Cézanne]]:<br /> ''[[The Card Players (Cezanne)|Card Players]]'' 1894-1895]] [[Image:Paul Cézanne 179.jpg|thumb|right|[[Paul Cézanne]]:<br /> ''Apples and Oranges''<br /> circa 1899]] ===Paintings: major painters and works represented=== *[[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] &mdash; 4 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the [[Louvre]]