L'Origine du monde
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Musée d'Orsay
Paris
A railway station full of Impressionists. Manet, Monet and Renoir hang under the old clock, on the Seine.
What to see
L'Origine du monde
Gustave Courbet · 1866
L'Origine du monde is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread.
Luncheon on the Grass
Édouard Manet · 1863
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, originally titled Le Bain (The Bath), is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. It depicts a nude woman and a scantily dressed bathing woman on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting.
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Olympia
Édouard Manet · 1863
Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
The Church at Auvers
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
The Church at Auvers is an oil painting created by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890 which now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. The painting depicts the Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 27 kilometres (17 mi) north-west of Paris.
The Birth of Venus
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1879
Artists
French · 1832–1883 · Impressionism
France · 1840–1926
France · 1841–1919 · Impressionism
French · 1834–1917 · Impressionism
French · 1848–1903 · Post-impressionism
Dutch · 1853–1890 · Post-impressionism
French · 1839–1906 · Post-impressionism
French · 1825–1905 · academic art
France · 1841–1870
French · 1819–1877 · French Realism
French · 1836–1904 · French Realism
French · 1814–1875 · French Realism
Artworks
The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1863
Ploughing in the Nivernais
Rosa Bonheur · 1849
The Circus
Georges Seurat · 1891
The Tub
Edgar Degas · 1886
The Gleaners
Jean-François Millet · 1857
The Oreads
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1902
Flooding at Port-Marly
Alfred Sisley · 1876
La Balançoire
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
The Cradle
Berthe Morisot · 1872
Bazille's Studio
Frédéric Bazille · 1870
La Toilette
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1889
La Femme à la cafetière (Woman with a Coffeepot)
Paul Cézanne · 1895
Sources
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