Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris’s Musee d’Orsay, has died at 70
Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at…
Qatar Reveals It’s the Owner of Courbet’s Famous Self-Portrait
Qatar revealed this week that it’s the owner of Gustave Courbet‘s famed self-portrait Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man),…
Musée d’Orsay Puts Manet on (Mock) Trial for Obscenity
At the 1863 Salon des Refusés—a special exhibition for works rejected by Paris’s official Salon—Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe provoked intense…