Reserve
The paintings of the Musée d’Orsay. An exceptional collection.
Built up over time through purchases by the state, donations and bequests from artists, collectors and patrons, and also thanks to an active acquisitions policy, the Musée d’Orsay’s collection of pictures today constitutes an exceptional holding represented by the greatest names and schools of painting between 1848 and 1914.
For its new hanging in the picture galleries, the Musée d’Orsay is highlighting its extraordinary masterpieces to offer the public an increasingly complete yet fresh survey of that fruitful and varied era, one of the most creative and abundant in the history of art. Published for this occasion, the volume presents 300 works in an order that is both chronological and thematic, thereby offering a comprehensive overview of the history of painting of the period, with the didactic intent of rendering it accessible to the widest possible public.
An exceptional journey through one of the most beautiful collections of pictures in the world:
• A reference work for the history of painting between 1848 and 1914
• The wealth of the iconography: 300 illustrations
• The major themes and principal movements set out at the end of the book make it possible to understand the works in their historical context
• 25th anniversary of the Musée d’Orsay at the start of 2012.
Da Corot a Monet 
Vincent van Gogh 
Impressionism 
