Paris: Day 4
June 14, 2022
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Above: Herculaneum, August 23, 79 AD, by Louis Héctor Leroux, 1881. Mount Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii and the smaller Herculaneum.
Artwork inside Musée d'Orsay ...
... 1 La Cathédrale des Pauvres (The Cathedral of the Poor), by Joaquim Mir, 1898.
... 2 The Artist's Studio, by Gustave Courbet, 1855. Rejected by the Salon Jury, he showed this at his own exhibition. He works on a landscape,
with a nude lady observing, with his middle class friends on the right, and the "poor and wretched" on the left. "The exploited, and exploiters."
Courbet wrote.
... 3 Coin de Table, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872.
... 4 Portrait of the Marquis and Marchioness of Miramon and their children, by James Tissot, 1865.
... 5 to 7 Detail from Herculaneum, August 23, 79 AD, by Louis Héctor Leroux, 1881.
... 8 Paintings being restored in the back of the Musée d'Orsay.
... 9 and 10 show detail from Paris from the Observatory, by Victor Navlet, 1855.
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