PETIT PALAIS

Petit Palais and nearest Parks, Streets

https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/

https://www.paris.fr/lieux/jardin-des-abords-du-petit-palais-3311

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Palais

The Petit Palais , built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 by the architect Charles Girault 1 , houses the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris . It is located in Paris 8th  , avenue Winston-Churchill , opposite the Grand Palais .

It is one of the fourteen museums of the city of Paris , managed sinceJanuary 1 , 2013by the public administrative establishment Paris Musées .

The Petit Palais is organized around a semi-circular garden. The exhibition spaces are located on the first floor, the ground floor being originally devoted to offices and storage.

Map of the Petit Palais during the 

Universal Exhibition of 1900 .

The facade is almost 125  m long, centered by a monumental porch surmounted by a dome . Ionic columns with diagonal volutes adorn the main face as well as the semi-circular peristyle of the inner courtyard. The decor is completed by numerous bas-reliefs .

Charles Girault had designed spaces only lit by natural light, creating glass roofs, transparent domes and large bay windows.

The sculptures on the facade are 2  :

  • The City of Paris protecting the Arts of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert with a seated woman holding in her left arm a ship symbolizing Paris and surrounded by the Muses  ;
  • on the right, a group with The Seine and its tributaries by Maurice Ferrary  ;
  • on the left, the group Les Quatre Saisons by Louis Convers with young women carrying sheaves of wheat and fruit.

The facade of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren , Belgium , also designed by Charles Girault , will partly take up the composition and motifs of the Petit Palais.

The porch of the Saigon opera house in Vietnam, the former capital of French Indochina and also built in 1900 3 , has similarities with that of the Petit Palais.

Nearest to Grand Palais streets in sun shining still have Green plants, enjoyed was to see Greens.