Housed in a
train station built for the 1900 World's Fair, the Musée d'Orsay is
known throughout the world for its rich collection of Impressionist
paintings including masterpieces as iconic as the Bal au Moulin de la
galette from Renoir or The room at Arles de Van Gogh. Its
collections include works of architecture, decorative arts and
photography in addition to traditional artistic fields (painting,
sculpture, graphic arts). They thus draw a broad panorama of French and European art from 1848 to 1914.
A comparison of artists as crucial as Manet and Degas should not be limited to identifying the similarities in their respective bodies of work. Admittedly, there is no lack of analogies among these key players in the new painting of the 1860s-80s when it comes to the subjects they imposed (from horse races to café scenes, from prostitution to the tub), the genres they reinvented, the realism they opened to other...
The 18th century is regarded as the golden age of pastel. A medium second to none when it comes to rendering the effects of texture and velvety complexions, use of pastel was often restricted to portraiture. Although it fell out of fashion at the time of the French Revolution, pastel enjoyed a revival between the second half of the 19th and early 20th century. The range of available pastels was considerably broadened...
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