# Name these pieces from British Museum and Musee d'Orsay... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257 "2007-11-05T04:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/1 "2007-11-05T04:08:23Z")
My girlfriend has just written an article about the British Museum and Musee d’Orsay, but the magazine staff just the works in the article and asked her to find the names, iif I understand correctly. They assume that since she lived in Paris and studied art there, then she knows all of the works by heart. While she has an idea of who painted these pieces (in the case of the first three) she doesn’t know for sure. Also, she doesn’t know the names for the Egyptian pieces listed below. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [Painting 1](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/1866290033_e1d96edf9b_o.jpg) [Painting 2](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/1866291331_9d98d53043_o.jpg) [Painting 3](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1867117376_fec374d8e4_o.jpg) [Egyptian papyrus](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2261/1866293081_747edec87b_o.jpg) [Sculpture](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2007/1866293655_d21cc2346e_o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/2 "2007-11-05T04:43:16Z")
Painting 1 is [Femme Dans Son Bain S’Épongeant La Jambe](http://www.chapitre.com/CHAPITRE/fr/PAINT/product/degas-edgar/femme-dans-son-bain-s-epongeant-la-jambe,414023.aspx), by Edgar Degas. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/3 "2007-11-05T05:13:34Z")
D’orsay maintain an extensive online catalogue by artist at [Musée d'Orsay](http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/) (see ‘search by lists’). If she think she knows who painted them, it would take only a few minutes to flip through the results for each artist to find the matches. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/4 "2007-11-05T05:18:54Z")
[This page](http://www.philipharland.com/Blog/category/archeology/) identifies the sculpture as being a “[v]otive relief depicting the Thracian goddess Bendis with a number of torch-race victors approaching their goddess (c. 400-350 BCE, now in the British Museum…)” ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/5 "2007-11-05T05:36:38Z")
#2 is [_Femme se coiffant. Celle qui se peigne._](http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/resultat-collection.html?no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bzoom%5D=0&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BxmlId%5D=000696&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bback%5D=en%2Fcollections%2Findex-of-works%2Fresultat-collection.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26zsz%3D9) by Toulouse-Lautrec. #3 is [_A Box at the Italians’ Theatre_](http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/outils-transversaux-2/gdzoom.html?tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bzoom%5D=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BxmlId%5D=000346&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bback%5D=en%2Fcollections%2Findex-of-works%2Fresultat-collection.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26zsz%3D9&cHash=8645c10ced) by Eva Gonzales. ---
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/6 "2007-11-05T08:08:29Z")
Yeah, my girlfriend spent all morning scanning d’Orsay’s archive. She ended up finding them, but I didn’t have time to update before I went to work. So, the only thing she’s looking for now, I guess, is the last Egyptian work… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/7 "2007-11-05T08:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=gitfiddle] Yeah, my girlfriend spent all morning scanning d’Orsay’s archive. She ended up finding them, but I didn’t have time to update before I went to work. So, the only thing she’s looking for now, I guess, is the last Egyptian work… Thanks! [/QUOTE] It is a section of the [Papyrus of Ani](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani_Papyrus), a copy of what is more colloquially known as “The Egyptian Book of the Dead”. I couldn’t tell you what the hieroglyphs refer to exactly, but if a more knowledgeable Doper doesn’t come along between now and Tuesday I can run it by my prof. ---
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/8 "2007-11-05T13:33:14Z")
Thanks y’all. This was a huge help! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-these-pieces-from-british-museum-and-musee-dorsay/425257/9 "2007-11-05T14:07:13Z")
Here’s the [British Museum website](http://www.britishmuseum.org/default.aspx). It has a nice “explore” function so maybe you can find even more interesting items.