Paris: Petit Palais

The Petit Palais is a museum in Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition to Charles Girault's designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). Located near the Champs-Élysées, it faces one side the of the Grand Palais, also built for the 1900 exhibition.

 

Arranged around an octi-circular courtyard and garden, the palace is similar to the nearby Grand Palais. Its ionic columns, grand porch and dome echo those of the Invalides across the river. The tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses is the work of sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Palais

 

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