The commotion at the Musée d'Orsay.
The Impressionists, who largely bring glory to the great Parisian vessel, are celebrated, reworked and their works massively loaned there in this year of the 150th anniversary of the first joint exhibition.
It was April 15, at 35, boulevard des Capucines, in the studio of photographer Nadar.
Even before the decision of President Christophe Leribault (recently left to manage the Palace of Versailles) to send nearly 120 of his treasures to around thirty French museums, his predecessor Laurence des Cars, now patron of the Louvre, had initiated the movement .
Deciding on a first shipment of 58 strictly impressionist oils, but also
“pre”
(Daubigny, Paul Huet),
“para”
(Jongkind, Boudin) or
“post”
impressionist (Gauguin, Signac, Redon, Mondrian, Bonnard) to Tourcoing the city of Gérald Darmanin.
This first large-scale exhibition, which opened on March 16 and for three months at the local Museum of Fine Arts…
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