Musee d'Orsay

We had set aside two days--European Heritage Days, when lots of places are open with free admission--to see the d'Orsay. (The Louvre does not participate in the Heritage Days scheme; too big to fail, I guess.) In any case, we managed to do the d'Orsay in just the one day. Whole floors and rooms were closed, for whatever reasons. But the stuff we came to see, the Impressionists and post-Impressionists, and the Art Nouveau furniture, etc., were all open and there and just as we'd remembered from our last visit in 2019. I think this was probably our 8th or 9th visit to this museum, whose scope is limited pretty much to just the latter half of the 19th century. The museum had a "no fotos!" policy at various times, which I complied with casually, but on our last visit I took lots of pix, which are mostly at https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2019/06/musee-dorsay-favorites.html, and https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2019/07/musee-dorsay-art-nouveau.html. An additional post from the wonderful 2019 Berthe Morisot exhibition is at https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2019/07/musee-dorsay-berthe-morisot.html. Anyhow, we were there September 18th, loving it all over again. I'll limit the pix to just a few things I haven't posted before.

Sorry; I've been taking these d'Orsay clock pix since 1998 and
can't resist, especially with the ugly crane now in view; I'm
fascinated by the changing light, the seasons, the time of day...

Three wall pano of Renoir females

I could only get two walls of the Monet Houses of Parliament, Rouen cathedral, etc.

Renoir's City Dance and Country Dance

Renoir's portrait of Monet

Relatively rare Monet still life, nature morte, as the French call it:

his Le Quartier de Viande; 1864, way before he or anybody else

was doing Impressionism (except maybe Turner, a generation

earlier)

Another Fantin-Latour group portrait I like: Un Atelier Aux
Batignolles, 1870; right at the birth of French Impressionism
featuring Manet (with the palette), Renoir, Monet and Emile Zola,
among others

Stand right up next to it and every minute the huge mechanism 
clanks and the hand moves half a foot...

Evidently I was in a sort of Fantin-Latour mood that day; here
his Coin de Table, 1872; Verlaine and Rimbaud the two left-most

Interior train station clock...works, too

Really bad hair day

Now we are in the Art Nouveau furniture section,
referenced above: Hector Guimard, whom we
adore, doors

I'd drink out of those...but only the really good stuff

Moving right along...Andre Devambez, Le Seul oiseau qui vole
au-dessus nuages, 1910; "the only bird that flies above the clouds";
clearly one of Bleriot's early monoplanes; the French didn't get
there first, but they've never been very far behind; witness Airbus

We'd missed a turn, but are now back in post-Impressionism:
an 1886 Van Gogh, perhaps before he found his voice, so to speak:
his La Guinguette a Montmartre le Billard en Bois

Changing style: Le Restaurant de la Sirene a Asnieres, 1887

La Salle de Danse a Arles, 1888

The Starry Night, 1888

Chaumes de Cordeville au Auvers sur Oise, 1890; among his last...

Done, and outside; along the top of the building are named the
various French cities served by the station, once one of Paris'
largest and most famous 

Strolling along the Seine to our next museum...