The Ham Nomads

16 Oct 2015. <FR> Paris —

Today we went in to the Musée d'Orsay! What do you do when one of the main railway stations in your city becomes out of date because the trains are getting longer, but there is no room to lengthen its platforms? Simple -- turn it into one of the best art museums in the world!

In the shuttle bus.

This is one place where the photos will really speak for themselves. The museum concentrates on modern painting, from the period of Millet up virtually to the present (but for the more recent works, you really need to go to the Pompidou Centre -- also on our agenda!

There are paintings here by Millet

by Manet

by Monet

by Seurat

by Signac

by Degas

by Gauguin

by Cézanne

But we must say we still have a distinct liking for Renoir

Portrait of Richard Wagner

and for Van Gogh

... And here are a few more of the morsels on display at the Musée d'Orsay ...

Èdouard Vuillard. Le Docteur Geirges Viau dans son cabinet dentaire (1914)

Maximilien Luce. La Seine à Herblay (1890)

Théo Van Rysselberghe. L'Homme à la barre (1892)

Alfred Sisley. La Forge à Marly-le-Roi (1875)

Aristide Maillol. Jeunesse (1910)

Antonin Carlès. La Jeunesse

Denys Puech. Aurore (1900)

Ernest Barrias. Les Chasseurs d'alligators (1894)

Auguste Rodin. Saint Jean-Baptiste (1878-81)

Jean Delville. L'École de Platon (1898)

René-Emile Ménard. L'âge d'or (diptych, left part, 1908)

Étienne Gautier. Sainte Cécile morts (1878)

Honoré Daumier. Don Quichotte et la mule morte (1867)

Annie Swynnerton. (1892)

Ernest Hébert. La Lavandera (1869)

Alfred Stevens. The Bather (c.1867)

James Abbott McNeil Whistler. Arrangement in grey and black no.1 (1871)

Two old girls together!

We had no difficulty spending the entire day here, from the minute the Museum opened until they kicked us out at the end of the day.

So, footsore but exhilarated, we made put way back the van for the night.

Pizza for dinner, from the van in the campsite

Distance driven — today, nil; to date, 29,782 miles ( 47,930 km )