Treasures of the Musee d'Orsay

Located in a soaring Parisian train station that has been transformed into a wildly popular museum, the Musée d'Orsay boasts the world's most impressive collection of nineteenth-century art. All the treasures of the museum are represented in this compact but comprehensive volume, spanning the collection's full range of painting, sculpture, decorative arts, pastels, drawings and watercolors, architecture, and photography. The museum's former director, Françoise Cachin, notes at the end of her engaging introduction: "I would like to express the wish that this small but dense 'tiny Orsay' will help the reader preserve vivid memories of the quality and the variety of works seen at this museum. May it especially instill a desire to return again and again in search of new discoveries."