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| | == Remarks == | | == Remarks == |
| − | [[File:Musee national du Chateau de Versailles.JPG|thumb|Le Musée de l’Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles, France.]] | + | [[File:Matisse Large Red Interior.jpg|thumb|Henri Matisse, Large Red Interior, 1848, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center G. Pompidou.]] |
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| | * The Louvre is a masterpiece in and of itself. It guards some 445,000 artistic pieces. | | * The Louvre is a masterpiece in and of itself. It guards some 445,000 artistic pieces. |
| − | * The Musée d'Orsay, ''housed in a beautiful old train station. Countless impressionist and expressionist masterpieces are held here.'' [http://goparis.about.com/od/parismuseums/tp/Top-Ten-Paris-Museums.htm] | + | * The Musée d'Orsay, is ''housed in a beautiful old train station. Countless impressionist and expressionist masterpieces are held here.'' [http://goparis.about.com/od/parismuseums/tp/Top-Ten-Paris-Museums.htm] |
| | * Musée du Luxembourg: The first [[Impressionist]] exhibition to be held in a national museum took place here. | | * Musée du Luxembourg: The first [[Impressionist]] exhibition to be held in a national museum took place here. |
| | * The Marmottan Monet Museum has the largest [[Claude Monet]] collection in the world. | | * The Marmottan Monet Museum has the largest [[Claude Monet]] collection in the world. |
| | + | * The Matisse Museum has been welcoming visitors to its collection of works left by [[Henri Matisse]] (and his heirs) to the city of Nice where he lived from 1918 until 1954. [http://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/] |
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| | + | [[File:Musee national du Chateau de Versailles.JPG|thumb|left|Le Musée de l’Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles, France.]] |
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| | == External links == | | == External links == |
| | [[File:Watteau, Jean-Antoine - Pierrot.jpg|thumb|[[Jean-Antoine Watteau]], Pierrot, Musée du Louvre, Paris.]] | | [[File:Watteau, Jean-Antoine - Pierrot.jpg|thumb|[[Jean-Antoine Watteau]], Pierrot, Musée du Louvre, Paris.]] |