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    Tahitian Women on the Beach (French: Femmes de Tahiti) is an oil painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. Depicting two Tahitian women, this piece...
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    Musée d'Orsay (category Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata)
    van Gogh Vincent van Gogh, The Church at Auvers, 1890 Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891 Georges Seurat, The Circus, 1891 Paul Gauguin, Oviri...
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    Dante and Virgil (category Works based on Inferno (Dante))
    is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The painting depicts...
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    painted such works as Two Tahitian Women, Tahitian Women on the Beach, and Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? The Musée de Tahiti et des...
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    the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work. But Louvre made an X-ray of the...
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    The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks...
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    from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which van Gogh was renting at the time. The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject...
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    Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, as well as Raphael's The Triumph of Galatea. At the center of the painting, Venus stands nude on a scallop shell being...
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    vacantly downward. A glass filled with absinthe is on the table in front of her. The models used in the painting are Ellen Andrée, an actress who also appeared...
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    Le Lit (Toulouse-Lautrec) (category Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay)
    Le Lit ('The Bed') (also known as Dans le lit, 'In Bed') is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from around 1892 which depicts two women sharing a...
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    in the image, from the wood shavings on the floor, to the pattern of ironwork in the window grill to the arched backs and arms of the workers. The repetition...
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    "Praised as a portraitist of women, Cabanel expressed that he was particularly adept at painting portraits of American women." A portrait by Cabanel was...
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    various references to Manet's picture, the most apparent being the Tahitian girl seated on the right who is based on the Déjeuner's foreground nude". Max Ernst...
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    Napoleon III considered the painting's message an attack on the republic and brutally condemned the work. Linda Nochlin, Gustave Courbet: A Study of Style...
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    Van Gogh self-portrait (1889) (category Oil on canvas paintings)
    Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh painted a self-portrait in oil on canvas in September 1889. The work, which may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait, was...
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    The Enigma is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1871 by French artist Gustave Doré. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. The painting was created...
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    (1889) Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891) Aha Oe Feii? (1892) Delightful Land (Te Nave Nave Fenua) (1892) Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) (1892) The Moon and...
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    was the larger d'Orsay painting that was painted here, as the smaller would have been easier to control. On the other hand, the smaller is much the more...
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    as the Yellow House. The door to the right opened on to the upper floor and the staircase; the door to the left was that of the guest room he held prepared...
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    The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée...
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    of the North." He specifically refers to similar work done back at Nuenen when he describes this painting in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina on 5 June...
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    John the Baptist's severed head. The 106 cm high and 72,2 cm wide watercolor held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris elaborates on an episode told in the Matthew...
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    and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on the game at hand. Cézanne...
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    The Fifer or Young Flautist is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet, made in 1866. It is usually kept in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. On a trip to...
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  • Thumbnail for Dance in the City
    Dance in the City is a painting created by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Completed in 1883, the artwork is currently housed in the collection...
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    The Source (French: La Source, meaning "spring") is an oil painting on canvas by French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The work was...
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    resurrection when Lazarus opens his eyes and the reaction of the crowd which came to see. Women thought to be Mary and Martha (sisters to Lazarus) kneel to...
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    the excommunication of Robert II of France in the year 998. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1875 and, together with Laurens' other work on...
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    Gare d'Orsay (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    a plaque on the side of the building facing the River Seine commemorates this latter use. On 19 May 1958, General Charles de Gaulle used the opulent hotel...
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    towards the viewer. The scene is bathed in a bright and cheerful atmosphere, and the women's clothes use warm colors (yellow gloves, red hat). The paintings...
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