The Musée d’Orsay in Paris holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. The museum is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900.
The museum holds the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum’s opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
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