Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay - www.paris-pages.com
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Les Romans de le decadence by Thomas Couture, 1815 - 1879A good excuse to show nakedness was to disapprove of it, as the two characters on the right of this painting are so obviously doing. Couture is perhaps better known as the teacher of Manet.
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On the left, Charles Garnier, relatively unknown till he won the competition to design the Paris Opera, and much neglected during his lifetime. But the beautiful Opera has outlasted all those who ignored him and they are long forgotten. And the locals, who know best, now call it the Opera Garnier. Below, a reproduction of the original
ceiling of the Opera. This ceiling is still there a few inches behind the new, Chagall one. Perhaps they were worried that the Chagall might give them
something a little too daring!
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 Coquelicots by Claude Monet |
 James McNeill Wistler's Mother |
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Le berceau by Berthe MorisotOn the left, Berthe Morisot was one of the few female artists working seriously during the impressionist period. Below, Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet, 1819 - 1877. Courbet was born in Ornans.
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