Today we visited my favorite museum of the trip followed by my least favorite. The D’Orsay was phenomenal. First, it’s located in an old train station which appealed to me a lot for some reason. Go ahead and skip the lower floor because it is fairly ordinary. Once you get to the upper floors, however, there are several rooms that have the highest concentration of great art in any museum I’ve been to. The halls are packed with Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Seurat, etc. Any time you see several paintings by Van Gogh in one room, you know you’ve hit something.
The next Museum was called the Rodin (after the famous sculptor by the same name). The museum was set in a beautiful house, but other than that it was rather boring. If you are really fascinated by the fact that sculptors make little statues before they make the big ones, then this is for you (part of the museum showcases this process). In terms of seeing great art, though, its scope is fairly limited unless you simply Louvre Rodin (heh..).
