Bringing Courbet’s ‘A Burial at Ornans’ Back to Life, While Visitors Watch

The Musée d’Orsay demystified art conservation by turning the meticulous, yearlong restoration of a 22-foot Gustave Courbet painting into a public event.

​The Musée d’Orsay demystified art conservation by turning the meticulous, yearlong restoration of a 22-foot Gustave Courbet painting into a public event.