The
Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the
Seine. It is housed in the former
Gare d'Orsay, a
Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly
French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of
impressionist and
post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including
Monet,
Manet,
Degas,
Renoir,
Cézanne,
Seurat,
Sisley,
Gauguin and
Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.