Slow Travelin': Sis in France

27 May 2023

Sis in France - Musée d'Orsay

One thing we absolutely had to do was go to the Orsay Museum (aka Musée d'Orsay) - we're all big fans of the impressionists, and the Orsay is *loaded!*

Still, we have a pretty low threshold for museum-walking; we're bushed after only a couple of hours. So, our first stops were the wheelchair rentals, then the information booth, where a kind soul circled the "must sees" on our map. Then, zoom!

The building is a former train station...

Here is "Eve After the Fall"

And the description from the placard:

The powerful contours and tortured pose of this Eve owe much to the art of Michelangelo, whom Delaplanche, a winner of the Prix de Rome, studied during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1865 to 1869. With her head partly hidden by her arms and her hands clenched, she is experiencing overwhelming regret for eating the forbidden fruit which is lying at her feet. Her loose hair falls in heavy tresses behind the trunk of a fig tree around which the serpent of temptation is coiled. This terrible yet sensual work spent several decades in the Tuileries gardens."