Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Top of the Day was VanGogh's The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise.

Today was a quick review of Musée d’Orsay in Paris.  You can take your own tour with Google's Art & Culture here: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris.

Here is the artwork we saw today

  • The Adoration of the Magi -- link --
  • Self-Portrait Vincent van Gogh -- link --
  • Gleaners - Jean-François Millet -- link --
  • Luncheon on the - Grass Édouard Manet -- link --
  • Olympia - Édouard Manet -- link --
  • The Angelus - Jean-François Millet -- link --
  • Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- link --
  • Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh -- link --
  • Portrait of the Artist's Mother James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- link --
  • A Burial at Ornans Gustave Courbet -- link --
  • Young Girls at the Piano - Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- link --
  • The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet Vincent van Gogh -- link --
  • The Ballet Class - Edgar Degas -- link --
Links from some of our detectives
Trish sent a link to the Degas we saw before (the one most like the last painting)

Trish also sent an article about the church that Van Gogh painted complete with modern photograph of the facade: 

Here are a few other Renoir paintings of the Young Girls at the Piano (the Met painting is the one we saw before; very similar to the one above!): 

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  1. LubaApril 7, 2021 at 12:54 PM

    For those of you wanting to know more about the painting "A Meeting" by Marie Bashkirtseff. 
    https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/un-meeting-21497.html

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