The Petit Palais Museum in Paris

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Petit Palais Museum

 

The Petit Palais, meaning “Small Palace” in French, is a museum in Paris which was built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900. The building was designed by Charles Girault. Currently, the structure functions as the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts or, as the locals call it, the Musee Des Beaux-Arts

De La Ville de Paris.

The Petit Palais is similar to the Grand Palais in layout. At the center is a circular courtyard with a beautifully landscaped garden. The palace’s ionic columns, dome and grand porch mirrors the same elements of the Invalides which stand proudly across the river. The tympanum carved on the building’s pediment features the work of talented sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert.

The museum’s collection is exhibited in two sections, the Dutuit Collection and the Tuck Collection.

The first is made up of art objects, drawings and paintings from the Renaissance and medieval periods. On the other hand, the Tuck Collection is made up of works by French artists including Eugene Delacroix, Jean Ingres and Gustave Courbet. It also features a wide collection of furniture from the

18th century.

A lot of other buildings have been modeled after the Petit Palais. These buildings include the Museo

de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile and Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels.