Museums

One of our main goals on the trip was to see as much of the art in Paris as possible. We visited six major museums: the Louvre (three times), Orsay, Orangerie, Cluny, Pompidou, and the Picasso museums. We saw so much art that Ben's pupils were permanently constricted for a few days. We loved the art in the Louvre, but we preferred more intimate museums like the Orangerie and Orsay to the overwhelming palace.

Of course we both had to get pictures with the glass pyramid, though we never did find the inverted pyramid (from the Da Vinci Code.)

Marie's Favorites

• Winged Victory of Samothrace
• The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault
• The Médicis Gallery in the Louvre by Rubens
• St. Joseph the Carpenter by de La Tour
• The Birth of Venus by Cabanel
• The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries
  

Ben's Favorites

• The Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix
• Venus Standing in a Landscape by Cranach the Elder
• The Tree of Crows by Friedrich
• The Slaughtered Ox by Rembrandt
• Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette by Renoir
• Olympia by Manet

Our Favorites

• Water Lilies rooms of the Orangerie by Monet
• Self Portrait, St. Rémy by van Gogh