DAY 18, Wednesday, March 26: Musées d'Orsay et Delacroix

This is one tired cat.

PARIS

Two knock-out museums, one small and one massive

You may recognize the Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix's most famous painting, Liberty Leading the People (below, of course). His work would later influence many French impressionists. He traveled a lot and owned several homes in France. His last apartment, where he lived from 1857 to his death in 1863, became a museum that the Louvre operates today. It is around the corner from where I am staying. So today I wandered over there.

Terracotta colored painted bust
by Antoine Étex

The garden

His painting studio

Delacroix, L'Annuciation, 1841

One of Delacroix's palettes. It was very tidy.

The guard looked for all the world
like Nathan Lane. He fell asleep.

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In the afternoon, I walked to the Musée d'Orsay. If you don't mind, I will skip the artwork attributions. I'm dead tired, and many of these are so well-known. It was exhilarating to see everything that I could.  It would take several days to get through the entire collection.

An inadvertent selfie with Degas'
La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans.

RANDOM SHOTS OF THE DAY:

I liked the look of the plaster falling off
the side of a building.

Spring is here.

Tomorrow is my last full day in Paris. I am not going to go to a museum. 

Instead, I'm going SHOPPING!