Set on the banks of the Seine opposite the tuileries gardens, the Orsay museum is a work of art itself. Both the fantastic building itself & the treasures inside are true wonders which no visitor to paris ought to miss.
The Orsay Museum was originally designed as a train station in 1900. By the 1950's it became apparent that the platforms were short for modern trains & the building became home to a theater.
In the 1970's it was remodelled & converted in to a museum dedicated to displaying art from the period 1848 to 1915. There's lots of masterpieces at the Orsay include work by Delacroix, Manet, Guaguin, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, truck Gogh & lots of more great artists.
Among the spectacular works on display in this popular art gallery is Auguste Clasinger's "Woman Bitten by a Snake" which scandalised all of Paris in 1847 by supposedly depicting a woman not bitten by a snake but in the throes of passion &, said prominent critics of the time, modelled from actual life on 19th Century socialite Apollonie Sabatier.
