Paris, Musée d’Orsay
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A gouache by Filiger for the Musée d’OrsayIt is indeed an essential work by a singular artist that has just enriched France’s public collections, even though one would initially have imagined it at the Musée de Pont-Aven. Charles Filiger’s…
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A Monfreid painting for OrsayWe had admired it among the gallery of effigies gathered in the final section of the memorable George Daniel de Monfreid retrospective at the Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan (see the article). On…
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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange at the Musée d’OrsayThe very recent arrival of Red Scorpionfish and Lemons on the walls of the Paris museum is a significant event in itself. As Jean-Rémi Touzet has written, it is the very first Neo-Impressionist still…
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Fans: a donation to the Musée d’OrsayBrasser de l’air n’est appréciable qu’en deux circonstances : lorsqu’il fait chaud et lorsque l’accessoire est beau. En cette année 2026, le Musée d’Orsay célèbre ses quarante et n’est pas opposé aux…
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Two chairs by Mucha for OrsayReconstituée dans les salles du Musée Carnavalet, la boutique du joaillier Georges Fouquet est l’un des plus beaux décors Art nouveau parisiens, entièrement né de la fertile imagination d’Alfons…
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L’Art en une semaine n° 2 - Mardi 2 juin 2026Dans ce deuxième numéro de notre podcast "L’Art en une semaine", nous parlons de Mont-Saint-Michel et du CMN, du château de Versailles et du "lit de Louis XIV", et enfin du Musée d’Orsay et de…
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Why all the secrecy surrounding Gustave Courbet’s The Desperate Man?On 15 October 2025, more than seven months ago, we asked the Musée d’Orsay to provide us with, or allow us to consult, the agreement it had concluded with the Qatar museums, regarding the loan by the…
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Renoir, Matisse, and the temptation of spectacleWill the museum be visited like the cinema? Sadly, yes, nowadays. In search of novelty, visitors and spectators ask the same question: what are the releases of the week, what are the exhibitions of…
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A large Dalpayrat planter acquired by the Musée d’OrsayWe had briefly mentioned it in the article devoted to the regrettable absence of preemptions that had arisen during the sale of an important group of glazed stoneware offered by the Thierry de…
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A new watercolour by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by the Musée d’OrsayIn a vast high-ceilinged room, whose every piece of furniture is laden with objects, plants, mail or studies, is depicted an elderly woman entirely dressed in black, seated, in profile, in an…
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