Enjoy the Musée d’Orsay’s fantastic collection of Impressionist art with this day-ticket!
As well as seeing paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Van Gogh and more, you’ll also have access to exhibitions on photography, graphic art, architecture, sculptures, and objets d’art.
The museum building itself is a highly photogenic ex-train station with a Beaux-Arts façade and an interior iron skeleton. In the square nearby, you’ll see the six sculptures built on the occasion of the 1900 International Expo, each representing a different continent.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
James Tissot’s ambiguous modernity
23 June - 13 September 2020
Jacques Joseph Tissot, born in Nantes and a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, is a major artist of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fascinating, ambiguous figure whose career spanned the English Channel. Although he has regularly featured in exhibitions devoted to this period, this retrospective is the first dedicated to him in Paris since the exhibition organized at the Petit Palais in 1985.
Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). Light and solitude
13 October 2020 - 10 January 2021
Léon Spilliaert was a man of troubling solitude and infinite perspectives. Drawing on metaphysical questions and Flemish culture, he surprises and mystifies with his uncategorizable works, inventing a symbolism of inner darkness that has marked Belgian art.
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
13 October 2020 - 10 January 2021
The exhibition will trace the story of this outstanding creator, from his first works published in 1891 to his last portrayals in 1898. In addition to around one hundred original drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, some examples of original publications of these illustrations will be displayed, as will a selection of posters to show the context in which works by this extraordinary figure was given prominence.
Girault de Prangey - Photographer (1804-1892)
3 November 2020 - 7 February 2021
The exhibition at the musée d'Orsay, the first monographic presentation in France of Girault de Prangey’s photographic work, aims above all to showcase this historically exceptional collection and the originality of its techniques and materials while emphasizing the aesthetic aspirations that it merits over and above its initial documentary role.
The Origins of the World. The Invention of Nature in the 19th Century.
10 November 2020 - 14 February 2021
The nineteenth century saw an unprecedented development in the natural sciences. The great voyages of exploration revealed the diversity of the world and the variety of living species; geology discovered the unimaginably great age of the Earth and its transformations over time; the study of fossils revealed the ancient beginnings of life and the existence of now-extinct species. In 1854, the dinosaurs of Crystal Palace in London presented a Jurassic Park ahead of its time. The discovery of prehistoric man raised the question: how should he be depicted? Who was the first artist?
Ticket with reserved access to the museum's Entrance 'A'
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