Treasures of the Musée d'Orsay

by Françoise Cachin

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This volume explores the Musee d'Orsay's collection of 19th-century art. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, decorative arts, architecture and photography. Manet's Luncheon on the Grass and Van Gogh's Dr. Gahet are two of the paintings in the collection.

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Francoise Cachin, formerly director of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, is now honorary director of Musees de France, the French national museums board. She was one of the organizers of the 1988 Gauguin retrospective (Washington DC, Chicago, Paris) and has curated a number of exhibitions on other artists including Edouard Manet (Paris and New York, show more 1983), Georges Seurat (Paris, New York, 1991), and Paul Cezanne (Paris, Philadelphia, 1994). She is the author of numerous works on nineteenth-century art show less

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Treasures of the Musée d'Orsay
Alternate titles
Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay
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Musée d'Orsay

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Art & Design, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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709.03Arts & recreationArtsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyBy Period1500-
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N6447 .T69Fine ArtsVisual artsHistory
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