The Rest Of The Orsay, 2023

After Manet and Degas, we spent the rest of our time at the Orsay mostly doing favorites, the Belle Epoch stuff on the 2nd floor, a snack, and then the entire 5th floor. Since I've posted most all of this stuff previously, maybe even recently, I won't do much more here.

Although just a train station, the Orsay was a Belle Epoque train station, 
the Gare d'Orsay, and, accordingly some of it rooms and halls were
pretty opulent

This beautiful hall is currently the kiddie art room, where the young
ones can copy copies of the masterpieces in fine surroundings...France!

Moving right along, this is a non-religious triptych featuring music
and musical instruments

And now we are re-indulging ourselves in some some of the Hector
Guimard and friends that we love

Guimard smoking bench from a billiards parlor (as I recall); always
knocks me out

Obligatory long view from the 2nd floor

We had our afternoon snack at the 5th floor cafe

My "exclusive" chocolatey clock thing; definitely
a once-in-a-lifetime experience

Much of the Impressionist collection was moved around
(it seemed to us) to accommodate new acquisitions (gifts in
lieu of taxes) from among the works of Impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte, of whom we'd never heard; above,
his Sunflowers, described below

Thus; click to enlarge; Caillebotte was a wealthy
person who painted and engaged in a variety of other
pursuits; he is chiefly known for his crucial financial and
other early support of the Impressionists; when he died,
he left 68 Impressionist paintings to the state, which later
became the heart of the Orsay; his own work, known 
for its unusual perspectives, croppings, and such, began
to be appreciated only in the mid-20th century...

Renoir's Hommage a Rubens, 1878

Cezanne'a Comparing Apples and Oranges, 1881

The crowd that thinks this is the Starry Night

It's the Starry Night on the Rhone