Join with us the private tour in this Museum that no travelers should miss
Explore one of the world's most important collections of impressionist and post-impressionist art on this guided tour of the Musée d'Orsay. Enjoy skip-the-line entrance and follow your guide on a tour of the museum’s extensive exhibitions and see masterpieces like Monet’s ‘Blue Water Lilies,’ Cézanne’s ‘Apples and Oranges,’ and Renoir’s ‘Montmartre.’
Meet our guide outside the Museum and admire the striking museum building. The Museum was originally railway station, the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first "work of art" in the Musee d'Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.
Enter inside the Museum with our guide and enjoy this full experience of the best collections of Impressionist art in Paris. We will begin on the ground floor with the works of the Barbizon school and Corot. Emphasizing nature and atmosphere, these artists made a break from the expectations of previous schools and were freed from focusing on antiquity and classicism. From here, we will move on to the works of Realist artists like Courbet and Manet and you will be explained the new techniques and ideas that they introduced and how it inspired the future Impressionists. Continuing on, we will discuss the spread of Impressionism and its radical departure from traditional schools of painting while examining the works of Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Pissarro. After, we will look at the influence Impressionism had on subsequent artists, such as Cézanne and Van Gogh, and how it gradually morphed into several different movements such as Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, Pointillism, and Cubism. To finish, we will look at these movements and the artists they produced, including Matisse, Braque, and Gauguin.
By the end of our time together, you will have learned the importance of these major art movements and how they contributed to the formation of modern art. The tour ends inside the Orsay Museum. You can keep spending your own time inside the Museum to see again your favorite artwork independently and you will agree that this visit has been an experience that no traveler should miss.