The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts edifice built between 1898 and 1900.The square of the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the Exposition Universelle (1878):
- South America by Aimé Millet, Asia by Alexandre Falguière , Oceania by Mathurin, Moreau, Europe by Alexandre Schoenewerk, North America by Ernest-Eugène Hiolle,- Africa by Eugène Delaplanche, ...from Wikipedia
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