Musée d'Orsay | Musée Nabi Vol.02

MUSÉE NABI Vol.02 · NL-029 · Nineteenth Century

The Station, in Rose

Our French museum series: the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Smoky rose, iron grey, antique bronze and cream — bronze lines and rivet-like dots capture the rose-coloured dusk light inside a former railway station. Japanese jelly-style finish, every piece hand-painted.

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The nails are entirely hand-painted and photographed as real products; please refer to the actual photos for the final design.

The story behind this painting

The story behind

On the Left Bank of the Seine, the Musée d'Orsay was once a railway station. Beneath its high, arched glass roof, the steel beams and rivets remain, and the old platforms are now hung with nineteenth-century paintings.

At dusk, the setting sun shines through the great clock and tints the whole hall a soft rose. Standing beneath the clock, she could almost hear a distant train whistle. When she came home, she gathered that moment of light, stroke by stroke, into ten little nails — quietly, glowing.

• Cream bronze-arc nail ← the bronze ironwork beneath the arched roof
• Smoky rose nail ← the rose-coloured dusk light filling the hall
• Iron-grey rivet nail ← the rivets on the old station's steel beams
• Cream rose half-moon nail ← the face of the great clock
• Matte iron-grey gold-line nail ← the rails of the former platforms