Afternoon at Musée d'Orsay

There is a wonderful time to be had at Musée d' Orsay. The building was originally a railway station, hence so many clocks. Clockwise (he-he) from the top left, the restaurant clock, the west end of main atrium with walkways behind the great ormolu clock, the stairs clock with a view of the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur to the North and the old station sky light roof.
I'll only mention one of the many amazing works of art on show, mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915. I'm not usually a huge fan of religious subjects but this one really caught my eye and although not a Christian myself, this is a timely Easter piece.
Jean-Léon Gérôme's Jerusalem, painted in 1867 and interesting perhaps to other blippers, because it is so photographic in composition and lighting. The d'Orsay catalogue describes it as follows, 'the landscape participates in the dramatic mood; the composition makes fine use of an "off-camera" effect, a cinematographic technique before its time. The powerful visual ellipsis of the shadows of the three crosses thrown by the light of a stormy sky was such startling break with the traditional representation of the theme that Gérôme's painting attracted some of the harshest criticism of his career'. See it for yourself here.