Hundreds of paintings are reproduced in a guide to the Paris museum and accompanied by essays by a renowned art historian on Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism,

The Musee d'Orsay contains one of the most magnificent collections of 19th- and early 20th-century art in the world. Limited to the years between 1848 and 1914,

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