title: Musée d'Orsay
text: The Musée d'Orsay is an art museum in Paris. The building was built in 1900, and first used as a railway station. In 1986, it became the museum, and it is still very famous today. 
  
  The museum exhibits artworks of the 19th century including Impressionist paintings. The Impressionist paintings include works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Manet, and Van Gogh. That's why the Orsay is called the 'Impressionism museum'. 
  
  The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. Its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces is the largest in the world. It features work by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, Van Gogh and many others.
  
  Collection
  
  Paintings: major painters and works represented
  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres  — 4 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
  Eugène Delacroix  — 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
  Théodore Chassériau  — 5 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre)
  Gustave Courbet — 48 paintings including The Artist's Studio, A Burial at Ornans, Young Man Sitting, L'Origine du monde
  Jean-François Millet — 27 paintings including Spring, The Gleaners
  Honoré Daumier — 8 paintings
  Eugène Boudin — 33 paintings including Trouville Beach
  Camille Pissarro — 46 paintings including White Frost
  Édouard Manet — 34 paintings including Olympia, The Balcony, Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets, The Luncheon on the Grass
  Berthe Morisot  — 9 paintings
  Edgar Degas — 43 paintings including The Parade, also known as Race Horses in front of the Tribunes, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Edouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L’Absinthe
  Paul Cézanne — 56  paintings including Apples and Oranges
  Claude Monet — 86 paintings (the main collection of his paintings is in the Musée Marmottan Monet) including The Saint-Lazare Station, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878, Wind Effect, Series of The Poplars, Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue, Blue Water Lilies
  Alfred Sisley — 46  paintings including Inondation at Port-Marly
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir — 81 paintings including Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
  Ferdinand Hodler — Der Holzfäller (The Woodcutter)
  Gustave Caillebotte — 7 paintings including The Floor Planers
  Édouard Detaille — The Dream
  Vincent van Gogh — 24 paintings including Self Portrait, portrait of his friend Eugene Boch, The Siesta, The Church at Auvers, View from the Chevet, The Italian Woman, Starry Night Over the Rhone, Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Bedroom in Arles
  Paul Gauguin — 24 paintings including Tahitian Women on the Beach
  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — 18 paintings
  Paul Signac — 16 paintings including Women at the Well
  Georges-Pierre Seurat — 19 paintings including The Circus
  Edouard Vuillard — 70 paintings
  Henri Rousseau — 3 paintings
  Pierre Bonnard — 60 paintings including The Chequered Blouse
  André Derain — Charing Cross Bridge, also known as Westminster Bridge
  Edvard Munch — 1 painting
  Gustav Klimt — 1 painting
  Piet Mondrian — 2 paintings
  James McNeill Whistler — 3 paintings including Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, also known as Whistler's Mother
  
  Museums in Paris
  Art museums in France