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Petit Palais: Raking view of facade with fountain

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
Girault had done temporary structures for Exposition Universelle, Paris, of 1889 and of 1900. He also erected two structures that were intended to outlast the 1900 exhibition: the Petit Palais, which was entirely his own work, and the Grand Palais, of which he was principal architect. The fa\u00E7ades are interpretations of 18th-century French architecture and the Petit Palais in particular is an obvious allusion to the stables of the ch\u00E2teau at Chantilly, which were built (1721-1735) by Jean Aubert and restored by Daumet in the late 19th century. The Petit Palais, which was intended to accommodate collections of historic French art at the Exposition Universelle and then to become a museum, is arranged around a central courtyard, with an entrance hall and two vast galleries with sumptuous paved floors.

History

Alt Title

Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Paris, Île-de-France, France: 8th arrondissement: Avenue Winston Churchill Paris +48.866084+2.314759

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Beaux-Arts', 'Baroque Revival', 'Nineteenth century', 'Twentieth century']

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To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

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