When an art lover travels to Paris, the experience can be amazing and exhausting at the same time, as they would have to visit all these wonderful museums. Apparently, Paris Musées has found the solution to this issue by opening up its online collections portal.
There, a counter tracks the number of works of art from the museums of Paris digitized and uploaded online for all the world to see. This number comes in at 321,055. 150,222 images are in the public domain, and below that, the archive now contains 621,075 pieces of digital media in total.
Among these, you can find masterpieces by famous artists like Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Rembrandt, and Gand Anthony van Dyck, among others.
Paris Musées oversees the 14 City of Paris Museums, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Petit Palais, and the Maison de Balzac and Maison de Victor Hugo. That last currently has a virtual exhibition up called "Light and Shade."
The "thematic discovering" section of the Paris Musées portal also features sections on caricatures of Victor Hugo, in the 18th century, on portraits, and Paris in the year 1900, when Art Nouveau made it "the capital of Europe."
Keep in mind that Paris Musées doesn't have under its umbrella that most famous museum of all, the Louvre. So, if you want to get a feel for that world-renowned destination's formidable collection, you may have to visit it.
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