The Musée d’Orsay, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d’Orsay, is best known for the largest collection in the world of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. Highlights:
Édouard Manet, Olympia, The Balcony,The Luncheon on the Grass
Gustave Courbet, L’Origine du monde
Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners
Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus
Edgar Degas, The Parade, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Edouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L’Absinthe
Claude Monet, The Saint-Lazare Station, Rouen Cathedral, Blue Water Lilies
Alfred Sisley, Inondation at Port-Marly
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait,The Siesta, The Church at Auvers
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach