Amazing Impressionist and Post Impressionist collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

The museum is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900 on the left bank of the river Seine. The collection includes mainly French paintings and sculpture from the mid nineteenth century to World War I. It has the largest collection of Impressionist and Post Impressionist art in the world, with works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh amongst others.

Claude Monet ‘Lunch on the Grass’ – detail (1865)