Gérôme at the Orsay and Foil Art at Rosenkavalier

The special exhibition of Jean-Léon Gérôme's work at the Orsay is splendid: I wasn't going to go but today's segment on Telematin convinced me I should, in part, because the curator, I assume Edouard Papet, said so much was collected by Americans (like Vanderbilt) that this was the Europeans first time to see many works.  The range of his work from drawings to sculpture to paintings is quite impressive.           Closes January 23rd.

Colette added that after the Gerome exhibit she enjoyed walking down the hallway and viewing paintings from the Impressionist galleries - work by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Pissaro and other impressionists.  All these paintings will be returned to the upstairs galleries once the renovation is complete and the 53 Monets, now at the Grand Palais, will return as well.  Colette saw the Monet exhibit as well and thought it was splendid - it features the long familiar work from major museums all over the world plus many others that loaned by private collectors or small, out of the way museums one has not likely visited. 

There was also a small ephemeral show of "foil art", a little known practice at Rosenkavalier.  Here's an example before

and after tweaking.