Exploring Musée d'Orsay... Part II

My visit to Musée d'Orsay had been quite interesting so far. Having completed viewing the various statues and sculptures, it was time to move on to the painting collection that the museum houses.

La Paradis by Maurice Denis...

Les Saisons de la Vie by Ker-Xavier Roussel

Au Nouveau Cirque, Papa Chrysanthème by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

La Toilette, an 1889 painting by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec...

Le Lit, by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec...

The Resurrection of Lazarus by Henry Ossawa Tanner...

Summer Night by Winslow Homer...

La Légende Bretonne by Edgard Maxence...

Héraclès détruit les oiseaux de Stymphale by Edgard Maxence...

Le pauvre pêcheur by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes...

Works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, from left to right: Le Recueillement, L'Histoire and La Vigilance...

From left to right: Paintings by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes titled L'Espérance, La jeune mère and Le rêve...

L'expulsion du Paradis by Franz von Stuck...

Hercule délivrant Hésione by Hans Thoma...

Les exilés de Tibère by Félix Joseph Barrias...

Le Tepidarium by Théodore Chassériau...

La Source, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres...

Vénus à Paphos, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres...

Henri Regnault's Summary Execution...

Jeunes Grecs faisant battre des coqs by Jean-Léon Gérôme...

Martyrs chrétiens entrant à l'amphithéâtre by Léon Benouville...

La Chaste Suzzanne by Jean-Jacques Henner...

Jules Lefebvre's Nymphe et Bacchus...

Naissance de Vénus by Alexandre Cabanel...

Elie Delaunay's Diane...

William Bouguereau's Naissance de Vénus ...

La Vérité by Jules Lefebvre...

Labourage Nivernais by Rosa Bonheur...

Oswald Achenbach's Une fête à Genazzano...

Paul Sérusier's L'averse...

Paul Sérusier's La barrière fleurie, Le Pouldu...

Les Alyscamps by Paul Gauguin...

Vincent Van Gogh's La chambre de Van Gogh à Arles...

Vincent Van Gogh's portrait of Eugène Boch...

Vincent Van Gogh's La Méridienne...

Vincent Van Gogh's Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise...

Vincent Van Gogh's Mademoiselle Gachet dans son jardin à Auvers-sur-Oise...

And finally at Van Gogh's very famous self-portrait, that I had been looking for...

Van Gogh created many self-portraits during his lifetime. He painted himself more than 43 times between 1886 and 1889. In all these portraits, Van Gogh's gaze is directed away from the viewer...

This is one of Van Gogh's last few self-portraits...

Femmes de Tahiti by Paul Gauguin...

Le repas by Paul Gauguin...

La Sirene by Giulio Aristide Sartorio...

Héraklès tue les oiseaux du lac Stymphale by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle...

Aristide Maillol's Désir...

Model of La Vérité, la Philosophie et la Nature...

Lucien Schnegg's sculpture of his daughter, Louise...

Auguste Rodin's Ugolin...

Auguste Rodin's Porte de l'Enfer...

Denys Puech's La Muse d'André Chénier... 

Les chasseurs d'Alligators by Ernest Barrias...

Just Becquet's L'Abîme...

Denys Puech's Aurore...

Jules-Eugène Lenepveu's Les muses et les Heures du jour et de la nuit...

The ceiling of Musee d'Orsay...

The magnificent clock in the main hall of the museum...

The building has quite a lavish feel to it...

Indeed we should be grateful that this pretty building was saved from demolition in the 1970s...

Tired after the round of Musee d'Orsay, I headed out on Rue de la Légion to have something to eat...

My lunch - ham and egg crepe...

That gives me the energy to head to the Musée Rodin...