Musee d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Adventures in Copying "L'Origine du Monde"
For six weeks in 2011, visitors to room 20 of the Parisian Musee d'Orsay didn't know what to look at first—Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde (1866), or the woman copying it at a nearby…
Frederic Bazille (1841-1870), Woman with peonies, 1870. Originally titled Negress with Peonies
The Important Role of Black Models in Modernism
The ground-breaking exhibition not only expands art history, drawing attention to the engagement of black models in modernism, it also questions the role of museums and asks how these spaces can be…
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Tim Marlow's Must-See Museum Shows: September 2018

This month Denmark sees the opening of an exhibition that promises to be out of this world, the Musée d’Orsay presents a fresh perspective on Picasso’s enigmatic blue and rose periods, the 33rd…

A summer day in Paris: Berthe Morisot's Hunting Butterflies

Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris discuss Berthe Morisot's "Hunting Butterflies" (1874) at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.