The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris , France , on the left bank of the Seine . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay , an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900 . The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915 , including paintings , sculptures , furniture , and photography . It is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces ( the largest in the world ) by such painters such as Monet , Manet ,Degas , Renoir , Cézanne , Seurat , Sisley , Gauguin and Van Gogh . Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986 .
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