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Palais d'Orsay, begun in 1810, wasn't completed by Napoleon's downfall in 1814. In fact, it wasn't completely finished until about 1840, when the French Conseil d'Ét at (Council of State) moved its offices there.
History Musée d'Orsay as seen from the Pont du Carrousel Musée d'Orsay Clock, Victor Laloux, Main Hall The interior of the museum. The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, located next to the Seine river. Built on the site of the Palais d'Orsay, its central location was convenient for commuting travelers.
Musée d’Orsay, national museum of fine and applied arts in Paris that features work mainly from France between 1848 and 1914.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Orsay Museum land as a palace. In 1708, the port near River Seine was sanctioned to be built into a quay. The plan, however, got delayed until a century later, under the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. Between 1810 to 1838, the site served as cavalry barracks and later a grand palace.
The diversity of techniques, materials and buildings and the link with the decorative arts are evident in the collection of architectural drawings. The Musée d'Orsay's collection of some eighteen thousand items began with the transfer of the prestigious acquisitions of the Drawing Department of the Louvre Museum (now the Graphic Arts Department).
Built beginning in 1898 and inaugurated for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, it is the work of Victor Laloux (1850-1937), winner of the Prix de Rome in 1878, who was the teacher and mentor of several generations of architects at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Gare d'Orsay, coupe transversale (1898) by Gare d'Orsay, cross section Musée d’Orsay, Paris. The architect Victor Laloux was commissioned to design a new railway station, complete with a luxury hotel, on the left bank of the Seine. Located near the centre of Paris, this terminus serving the south-west of France would bring visitors close to ...
