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THE CREATION of the
Musée d'Orsay in 1986
was a great moment in the history of French museums. At last, within the spectacular edifice of the old Gare d'Orsay were gather together the national collections - from the middle of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth- which had until then been dispersed between the Louvre. the
de Paume, the Palais de Tokyo and a number of other museums and government offices
This ensemble offers unique access to one of the most fertile and often contradletory
periods in the history of art. From the later works of Ingres and Delacroix or Corot, to early
Matisse or the fauves, the museum displays official art - from ecdectism to naturalism or
symbolism - side by side with the experiments of the impressionists, post-impressionists
or the nabis. The holdings are not limited to French art: Whistler appears next ta Manet
just as Klimt and Munch complement Bonnard. While the introduction charts the
history of the collections and explains the timescale adopted for. he choice of wori
the authors - curators of the museum - examine the pictorial output of this period in all
its richness and variety
More than zso colour reproductions magnificently lustrate the masterpieces of this museur