Le Musée D’Orsay

 April 25, 2025

Today’s adventure took us to Le Musée D’Orsay.  Though we had a ticket with a scheduled time, so did several hundred other people so we spent time in line waiting to be admitted to the very crowded museum.  Luckily the exhibits that interested us did not interest most so we were actually able to enjoy our time in this gorgeous museum which was originally a train station.

Our favorite was the works of Christian Krohg (1852-1925) called The People of the North which captured the every day lives of Norwegians.

This one is “The Struggle for Existence”

Below is a painting from the series “North Wind”

Most parents can relate to this one…

Below is a self portrait by Krohg called “The Morning After” which actually reflected how Ed was feeling after a wee too much wine at Happy Hour last night.

“Street Art” was the other installment we enjoyed which was all about early lithographs used as advertising in Paris, most of which were pretty humorous.

This one remains so timely- universal suffrage vs. royalty as a form of government.

Next we made our way to the Jardin de Luxembourg to kill some time while waiting to meet our niece Cecily for dinner.  Ed said there aren’t enough pictures of me so I kind of obliged.

Beautiful gardens there, we’ll return when the weather’s better.