Statues of the Museum of Orsay

Paris is one of the most tourist-visited cities over the world. One of most visited places in city are its museums - starting from the most famious like Louvre to the small private or with limited colection. 

The Museum of Orsay (Musée d'Orsay) locates on the left bank of the Seine River and is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915 and holds paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. The major exposition is the collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by such painters as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. 

But the museum is interesting not only with its collection. Just in front of the enter there are some statues that attracts your attention by their monumentality, beauty and reality in details.  

1. "Cheval a la herse" (Pierre-Louis Rouillard, Paris, 1820-1881)

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3. "Rhinoceros" (Alfred Jacquemart, Paris, 1824-1896)

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5. "Jeune elephant pris au piege" (Emmanuel Fremiet, Paris, 1824-1910)

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Besides the awesome sculptures of animals, from the right of the museum entre there is a composition of six women. Each of the represents the continent

7.  "l'Océanie" (Mathurin Moreau, Dijon, 1822 - Paris, 1912)

8. "l'Amérique du Sud" (Aimé Millet, Paris 1819 - 1891)

9. "L'Amérique du Nord" ( Ernest-Eugène Hiolle, Paris, 1834 - 1886)

10. "l'Afrique" (Eugène Delaplanche, Paris, 1836 - 1891)

11. "l'Asie" (Alexandre Falguière, Toulouse, 1831 - Paris, 1900)

12. "l'Europe" (Alexandre Schœnewerk, Paris, 1820 - 1885)