The Petit Palais was built by Charles Girault, at the same time that the Grand Palais, to host retrospective of French art during the Universal Exhibition of 1900. In 1902, he became the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris.
The Petit Palais has, over 22 000 m2, a complete artistic panorama, from antiquity to the twentieth century, and also organizes exhibitions. The works of the museum (45 000 1 300 listed which exposed) are of great diversity, ancient bronzes up French painting of the nineteenth century, through the majolica of the Renaissance, the seventeenth century Dutch painting, without forgetting the old prints and modern with Rembrandt, Schongauer, Dürer and Goya. Three different collections are the richness of the Petit Palais Dutuit collections of Greek art, Roman, Egyptian, works of art, tapestries, statues, books and ivories in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance but also of paintings Dutch and Flemish schools of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, French and Italian schools of the eighteenth century. It also discovers a set of furniture, tapestries and objets d'art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries belonging to Tuck collections. And finally, the municipal collections consist of works by French painters of the nineteenth century, Courbet, Degas, Cezanne, Bonnard, and objets d'art 1900.
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In November 1895, a competition was launched to create a new road linking the Esplanade des Invalides to the Champs-Elysees with the construction a new bridge, the Pont Alexandre III. The project envisages for the first time the destruction Palace of Industry, built along the Champs-Elysees for the Universal Exhibition of 1855, and in his place, the construction of two palaces. The winner, the architect Charles Girault (1851-1932), began work in autumn 1897, they will last two years.
Faced with the obligation to exhibit the works solely in the light of day, Girault multiplies the openings (huge windows, tall windows) allowing light to enter all afloat. He designed the Petit Palais in a plane trapezium comprising four buildings set around an interior garden semi-circular bordered by a colonnade. The main facade, punctuated by an Ionic colonnade, is distinctive for a massive central portico surmounted by a dome inspired by the Church of the Invalides. After the apotheosis of architecture promoted iron at the Exposition of 1889, Girault turns to more conventional academic aesthetics.
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