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“Orsay” as a book category evokes the world collected in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay—works centered on the art, ideas, and social currents of roughly 1848–1914. It gathers fiction and nonfiction that explore Impressionism, Post‑Impressionism, Symbolism, and the Belle Époque: artist biographies and memoirs; museum and provenance stories; richly illustrated art histories; and historical novels set amid cafés, ateliers, salons, and newly modern cities. Hallmarks include sensuous, painterly prose; themes of modernity, urban transformation, class and gender, technology (from railways to photography), and the bohemian imagination. Alongside classics and catalogues, “Orsay” welcomes contemporary reappraisals—muse and model narratives, feminist art histories, design and decorative arts studies, and literary mysteries in fin‑de‑siècle settings—offering readers an immersive, elegant lens on the moment when modern art and modern life came of age.

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