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. Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
(1863)
Manet’s painting, first Practical Information
exhibited in Napoleon III’s 1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur.
Salon des Refusés, is Map 12 D2. Tel 01 40 49 48 14
presently on display in the (groups 01 53 63 04 50).
first area of the upper level. Open 9:30am–6pm Tue–Sun
(9:45pm Thu) (last ticket sold
1 hour before closing; tickets
available online, combined
ticket with Musée de
l’Orangerie also available).
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec.
7 8 9 0 - = ^
∑ musee-orsay.fr
Upper level Transport
q Solférino. @ 24, 68, 69,
84 to Quai A France; 73 to
Rue Solférino; 63, 83, 84, 94 to
Bd St-Germain. W Musée
d’Orsay. h Rue du Bac,
Bd St-Germain.

. Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette
To capture the dappled light filtering through
the trees, Renoir painted this colourful picture
(1876) out in the open in Montmartre.
Middle level

. La Belle Angèle
This portrait (1889) by
Paul Gauguin shows the
sitter in traditional
Breton costume.

Shop

Entrance
Ground floor The Tiger Hunt by Eugène Delacroix
Painted in 1854 for a dealer named
Weill, this was described by Baudelaire
as profound, sensual and terrible.

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