Free guided tour "Paris, capital of a modern nation"

Name: Free guided tour "Paris, capital of a modern nation"
Start: 2022-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Établissement public du musée d’Orsay et du musée de l’Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing

A new presentation of the immense canvas by Victor Navlet Vue générale de Paris, (1855) and the Opera by Charles Garnier brings together paintings, drawings, models and sculptures.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Registration on site within the limits of available places, go to the reception counter half an hour before the visit

During the Second Empire, Napoleon III dreamed of making Paris a modern capital that could rival London. The work that followed, under the leadership of the prefect Haussmann, is considerable, and the artists, whom they try to celebrate the ancient and picturesque Paris where modernity, are the direct witnesses of these upheavals. This new presentation, around the immense canvas of Victor Navlet General view of Paris, taken from the Observatory, balloon (1855) and the Opera of Charles Garnier makes dialogue paintings, drawings, models and sculptures.

About the location

Établissement public du musée d’Orsay et du musée de l’Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing

Esplanade Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Musée d'Orsay presents the art of the few decades between 1848 and 1914\. Painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts and graphic arts: all the arts of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries took place in the former station of Orsay, a building built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900\. Thus, the building is in a way the first "work" of the museum’s collections.