Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Thiébaut frères, "Liberté", 1889 © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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Auguste Bartholdi. Liberty Enlightening the World
15/09/2026 - 31/01/2027
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr/
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Unites States’ Declaration of Independence, celebrated in 2026, the Musée d’Orsay is presenting an exhibition along with a virtual reality experience devoted to the work of Auguste Bartholdi, a major figure in 19th-century French sculpture and creator of a number of emblematic works, including the Statue of Liberty. The exhibition looks back on Auguste Bartholdi’s career, an Alsatian sculptor with a visionary temperament whose monumental ambition asserted itself in his earliest projects and was further nurtured by the political upheavals of his day. It explores the birth of the Statue of Liberty, the result of a project originally conceived for the Suez Canal and then turned into an allegorical figure celebrating American independence.
15/09/2026 - 31/01/2027
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr/
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Unites States’ Declaration of Independence, celebrated in 2026, the Musée d’Orsay is presenting an exhibition along with a virtual reality experience devoted to the work of Auguste Bartholdi, a major figure in 19th-century French sculpture and creator of a number of emblematic works, including the Statue of Liberty. The exhibition looks back on Auguste Bartholdi’s career, an Alsatian sculptor with a visionary temperament whose monumental ambition asserted itself in his earliest projects and was further nurtured by the political upheavals of his day. It explores the birth of the Statue of Liberty, the result of a project originally conceived for the Suez Canal and then turned into an allegorical figure celebrating American independence.