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All Events in Musée d'Orsay (3)

Photography Not Art: PH Emerson (1886-1895)

July 17, 2010 to August 29, 2010 – Musée d'Orsay In 1895, only ten years after abandoning medicine to take up photography, Peter Henry Emerson published Marsh Leaves, his last illustrated book. Today it is difficult to imagine the feelings these la… Organized by Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition

Pre-Raphaelite Photography - Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Artistic Photography in Great Britain (1848-1875)

March 8, 2011 to May 29, 2011 – Musée d'Orsay Coming a bit closer to home, I guess ! From the Washington show this autumn, as featured here, this exhibition will be heading to Paris in March 2011. So, a short hop on the Eurostar if you are keen… Organized by National Gallery of Art in association with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris | Type: exhibition

Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde

September 13, 2011 to January 15, 2012 – Musée d'Orsay This exhibition explores the British "aesthetic movement" that, in the second half of the 19th century, set out to move away from the ugliness and materialism of the time, by proposing a new idealis… Organized by Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition