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Élise Dubreuil – Curator of decorative arts
Musée d’Orsay
62 rue de Lille,
75343 Paris Cedex 07
phone +33 1 40 49 48 14
mail
elise.dubreuil@musee-orsay.fr
The Musée d’Orsay, housed in a former railway station built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, has been devoted since its opening in 1986 to works dating from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Alongside collections of paintings, sculptures and graphic arts, the decorative arts housed here reflect the diversity of Art Nouveau artistic creation on a national and European scale.
Over the years, the Musée d’Orsay has built up a major collection of Art Nouveau objects and furniture, thanks to its efforts to bring together works belonging to the French state and to a voluntary acquisition policy. French works from Paris and Nancy rub shoulders with those from other countries, reflecting Art Nouveau movements in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the USA.
The Musée d’Orsay represents this emulation in the field of decorative arts, recalling the importance of the salons and major international exhibitions of the period (Universal Exhibition of 1900, International Exhibition of Turin in 1902, etc.) while offering a reading of the different influences and trajectories of the European Art Nouveau movements. In addition to its collections of works, the museum also holds archives on artists such as Emile Gallé, Hector Guimard, Carlo Bugatti and René Lalique.
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