A Week in Paris– Part Seven (Orsay)

A Week in Paris– Part Seven (Orsay) August 17, 2024

Well let’s start with the sculptures in Orsay which are considerable.  Orsay  is  a big  modern  building  compared  to  where  these  works  of  art  used  to  be  housed.

This is a statue of Eve, after she bit the apple, with regret written all over her face.  The sculptor is Eugene Delaplanche.

And another rendering of the same theme by the same artist.

This is a statue of Virgil, the author of the Aeneid by Gabriel Thomas.  As any good student of art will know, Degas was fixated on ballerinas, to the degree of making many paintings of them, and also some sculptures.

This is called La. Devideuse by Jules Salmson.  The one below is very different, depicting Cornelia, the mother of the Greeks…by Jules Cavelier

 


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