🏠 Musee d'Orsay

It has to be said that Paris is really a paradise for Pomeranian lovers, the density of museums and galleries is amazing, and it can be said that within the five districts on both sides of the Seine River, a museum can be two or three blocks away. We spent four days and three nights on this trip, and selected the Louvre, Orsay and Orangerie three relatively concentrated and representative museums. Look at the Orsay with the highest comprehensive score!

This is probably the most special and beautiful museum in Europe. Together with the Louvre and the Pompidou Center, it is known as the three major art museums in Paris.

The Musee d 'Orsay has a large collection of modern Impressionist paintings, including works by Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Cezanne, and it is recommended that you start from the 5th floor and descend. In addition to the rich collection of works, the Orsay transformed by the railway station is itself a work of art, whether it is the clock on the 5th floor or the semi-open sculpture exhibition area on the 2nd floor, it is worth walking slowly for a half day, and then going to the cafe to drink a cup.

The Louvre collection is too vast, the Orangery is too simple, and the Orsay is the closest one to my limited art appreciation ability. Coming here is like visiting those beautiful friends who have a one-time acquaintance.

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🎨 Its beauty, one is because of its countless background of identity changes

The predecessor of the Musee d 'Orsay used to be a train station. "I believe that friends who come here often understand this concept, and it is also a accustomed impression for me. How to put it? Because just look at the two large clocks on its exterior and the stone walls engraved with the names of various places in France, you can clearly understand its past history as a station, which is a masterpiece left by the French architect Victor Laloux (1850-1937) in Paris in the good times.

What more people do not know is that the former Orsay railway station was once the "Palace of Orsay" built by Napoleon in 1810, which is where the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, audit office, and administrative court are located, but in 1871, the entire palace was burned down by the mob of the Paris Commune and abandoned for 27 years.

At the end of the 19th century, in order to meet the upcoming World's Fair in Paris, it took only three years in 1898 to build the Orsay Railway Station, which is 173 meters long and 75 meters wide and has 370 rooms.

A total of 12,000 metric tons of iron were used (heavier than the Eiffel Tower), and the first train was sent out at the end of May 1900, with about 200 trains a day, when the trains were electrified and running underground.

But the original Gare d 'Orsay was built to serve visitors to the 1900 World's Fair, bringing distant VIps closer to the city center, and was actually just another extension of the Austerlitz railway station on the outskirts of Paris at the time. The symbolism is similar to that of the metro connecting the people of the southwestern provinces to Huadu (Paris's first metro line 1 was also opened and completed in 1900, and the direction of both sides is symmetrical parallel).

The feeder station, which was designed to serve as a customer service for the exposition, naturally did not stand the test of time, for it was at best a terminus of an ordinary line between the provinces and Paris, unable to really play the role of an extension of its main line, and it was difficult to operate the new large trains with longer and higher passenger capacity every year.

Coupled with the gradual popularization and development of the Paris metro line in the 1930s, people are slowly returning to the old habit of ending or beginning their journey at Austerlitz railway station, and gradually abandoning the old Orsay railway station.

On November 2, 1939, the beautiful old station gradually fell asleep, and it was not until 47 years later that it once again turned into the Musee d 'Orsay.

🎨 Its beauty is also due to its location and the architecture itself

The building of the Musee d'Orsay was originally the Gare d'Orsay train station on the banks of the Seine, which was protected as a historic site in 1978 and converted into a museum, which was officially opened in 1986. Across the river from the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens, they echo each other and form a beautiful urban landscape of Paris. When night falls, the bright museum light is reflected in the Seine River, and the stars are speckled, like a dream, and the romance is extremely great. Entering the Musee d 'Orsay, its interior retains the original columns, with cast iron beams and imitation marble decoration, classical temperament and industrial style echo, witness the change of the years, the flow of history.

🎨 Its beauty is also due to its extremely rich collection of works

In terms of the number and age of the collection, the Musee d 'Orsay cannot be compared with the Louvre across the river, but it is small and fine! Focus on the most glorious 100 years of French art history, the best works of 19th century European art, especially Impressionist works. Impressionist masters Monet, Cezanne, Reyno, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin's works, the Orsay all have!

The museum mainly displays Western art works created between 1848 and 1914, including painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, architectural design drawings, etc., covering realism, impressionism, symbolism, separatism and other schools, showing the 19th century to the early 20th century masters gathered, the star-filled art world style.

The collection is divided into three floors: 1st, 2nd and 5th floors. The 5th floor is the best place.

🎨 The first floor displays paintings, sculptures and decorative arts from 1850 to 1870, including works by the famous masters Ingres, Delacroix, Degas, Monet, Rodin and others.





🎨 The middle level shows works from 1870 to 1914.

🎨 The prestigious top floor is a paradise for post-impressionist lovers: Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and other brilliant masters from the second half of the 19th century to the early 20th century, each textbook, each classic. The famous clock is also here. Under the backlight and shadow, the clock with black and white lines is used as a frame. The distant scenery across the Seine River is mapped on the clock, and a real-time vivid Paris scenery comes into view.

📌 Spend 20 minutes outside the 5th floor terrace to check out the scenery or grab a cup of coffee at the "high-rise cafe".

Famous collection of paintings are:

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait, Sunflowers, Starry Night Over the Rhone

Miller, The Gleaner
The Boy Who Played the Flute by Manet
Portrait of Miss Darwell by Renoir
Renoir's Ball at the Pancake Mill

After seeing the museum, you can take a walk across the Seine River to feel the city permeated by literary romance