Tuesday, October 09, 2018

The Musee d'Orsay

The day after our visit to Versailles we headed to the Seine River and went to the Musee d'Orsay. In some ways we enjoyed our visit to the Orsay more than the Louvre. We both are great fans of the impressionists and they are spectacular in person. Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Gaugin and so many more are just amazing.

The space is a wonderful place, an old train station transformed into one of the greatest museums in the world. Despite its size, it is quite a bit smaller than the Louvre. And maybe that freed us up to just enjoy the place. The Louvre is so big it can get overwhelming. The Orsay was just a nice relaxing place to see amazing art.