came from New York, Whistler between Paris and London

With silver-gray railings, heavy curtains and thick eggplant carpet, one does not enter a room of the The Orsay Museum. But in a living room. The partially reconstructed one of Henry Clay Frick, “king of coke” at the dawn of the XX^e century and whose legacy – its mansion-museum – still seems today to taunt by its luxury and its very private refinement the gigantic and popular Met located just opposite on the 5^e Avenue.

To read also Christophe Leribault, a researcher at the Musée d’Orsay

As this Frick Collection is currently closed due to renovations, it has moved some of its treasures to a building on Madison Avenue, so that the local public can continue to enjoy it. And, for two years, she took some others on trips. Not in the form of a lucrative “best of” tour, as is usually practiced, but more judiciously by offering suitable sets to partner foreign institutions.

Orsay is one of them, which has been receiving since Tuesday seventeen of the eighteen Whistler acquired by Frick…