Claire Fréches-Thory

Le musée d'Orsay présente, on le sait, un panorama d'ensemble sur la création artistique de la seconde moitié du XIXe siécle et du début du XX' siécle. Ses programmes d'expositions temporaires, de concerts, de spectacles audiovisuels, favorisent toutes sortes de confrontations...

Introduction The Musée d'Orsay offers a broad panorama of late 19th and early 20th century art. In addition its programme of temporary exhibitions, concerts and audiovisual events lends itself to all forms of interdisciplinary encounters, stressing the complexity of an epoch which was...

Painting First Serge Lemoine Director of the fvlusée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay, which is dedicated to the art of the second half of the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth, is known all around the world. Since its opening in December 1986 it has welcomed over 50 million...

Preface Henri Loyrette Director of thie tviusée d'Orsay Several million visitors have filed through the rooms and galleries of the Musée d'Orsay since it opened in December 1986. Most have probably already forgotten that many of the pictures were previously exhibited at the Louvre or the...