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Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Instinct 

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn January 4, 2023January 7, 2023

Her art demonstrates a grasp of animal nature beyond picturesque figures in a landscape or sentimental stand-ins for human emotion.

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Musée d’Orsay Puts Focus on Overlooked and Anonymous Black Models in French Masterpieces

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber March 26, 2019March 28, 2019

Black models: from Géricault to Matisse temporarily retitles works featuring historically anonymous Black models to honor their sitters.

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The Everyday Madness of Picasso’s “Acrobat on a Ball”

by Barry Nemett December 1, 2018December 30, 2018

What a nimble feat of balance and strength it is to build a dream.

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Brash, Self-flattering, Macho Excess at the Musée d’Orsay

by Joseph Nechvatal November 23, 2018November 26, 2018

In an exhibition timed to promote the release of Julian Schnabel’s film about Vincent van Gogh, the museum juxtaposes 13 paintings from its 19th century collection with 11 of Schnabel’s works.

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How Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods Lay the Foundation for His Art

by Anahita Toodehfallah November 12, 2018November 9, 2018

Whether or not one considers Picasso a prodigy, Musée d’Orsay’s Picasso. Blue and Rose allows the public to bask in the world of a young, energetic, and sensitive artist.

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The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne

by Joseph Nechvatal September 7, 2017September 7, 2017

Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career.

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In the Jungle of Henri Rousseau’s Imagination

by Joseph Nechvatal June 30, 2016June 30, 2016

PARIS — Henri Rousseau is art history’s best-known naïf painter.

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The Louvre and Musée d’Orsay Shut Down as Seine River Floods [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon June 2, 2016June 3, 2016

Record rainfall in Paris has caused intense and dangerous flooding of the Seine River to the extent that the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay are closing temporarily to safeguard their collections.

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How Artists Portrayed Prostitution in 19th-Century Paris

by Joseph Nechvatal December 25, 2015December 30, 2015

PARIS — Perhaps out of a kindred permissive, libertine spirit, prostitution — both chic demi-mondaine and lascivious, pierreuse street-walker style — played a central role in the nascent development of modern painting.

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Four Years Later, Man Still Fighting Facebook for Censoring Courbet’s “Origin of the World”

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 21, 2015May 21, 2015

It’s been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet’s “L’Origine du Monde” (1866) on Facebook, returned to the social network to find the post removed and his profile suspended.

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Abusing the Marquis de Sade

by Joseph Nechvatal January 2, 2015January 6, 2015

PARIS — Georges Bataille, in The Accursed Share, said that if the Marquis de Sade had not existed, he would have had to been invented.

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Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet’s “Origin of the World”

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 6, 2014June 10, 2014

A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet’s “Origin of the World” (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.

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