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title: 'Orsay Museum'
url: 'http://maisonmillan.eu/en/tour/orsay'
markdown: 'http://maisonmillan.eu/en/tour/orsay.md'
lang: en
date: '2026-09-07'
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# Orsay Museum

## Presentation

 ![orsay01](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay01.png) 

 ![orsay02](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay02.png) 

 ![orsay03](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay03.png) 

This former railway station has been saved from destruction and today houses one of the art collections that caused the most scandal in France in the mid- and late 19th century.

The ideal, perfect and strict beauty, praised by the academicism of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Alexandre Cabanel, mingles with the modernity of the canvases of Édouard Manet and the realists Gustave Courbet or Jean-François Millet, considered vulgar and rebellious in their time. But it is above all the movement of rupture that gave birth to the avant-gardes of the 20th century, Impressionism, which is very well represented through its large collection: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Camille Pisarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, among others.

We will end our chronological visit with the post-impressionism of Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh.

 ![orsay04](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay04.png) 

 ![orsay05](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay05.png) 

 ![orsay06](http://maisonmillan.eu/user/pages/02.tour/orsay/orsay06.png) 

## Duration

Minimum 2 hours 30

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