13 May 2025

L’ORIGINE DU MONDE









Twenty-five years before Gare d’Orsay reopened as Musée d’Orsay in 1986, Orson Welles filmed his adaptation of The Trial in this Parisian train station of old-world elegance built for the newborn century’s electric locomotives. Courbet’s daring picture The Origin of the World was painted in 1866.