No risk of holes in the picture rails of the fifth floor of the Musée d'Orsay.
Paul Perrin, in charge of paintings, was able to draw at his leisure from the house reserves (nearly 1,100 impressionist and post-impressionist oils) to replace some of the 177 works that have left, or will leave, in the region.
As for those brought down for the exhibition and which appeared in 1874 at Nadar, there are “only” seven out of the 140 usually in the gallery.
The main problem for the manager was to review the cartels and the skirmish.
Finally, he had to warn the 34 borrowing institutions that all travel during the Olympic period would be frozen.
On the ground floor, in the temporary exhibition (to be seen before the immersive exhibition), is evoked, more than the first exhibition at Nadar, a synthesis intended as the most objective possible of artistic production in these years of 'after 1870, in a Paris tested by war and the Commune.
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