Petit Palais Murals

While strolling through the circular covered courtyard of the Petit Palais I looked up and discovered these heavenly murals inlaid in the arched ceilings. It's actually called a tympanum and the murals by sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert depict the muses of the city of Paris.

The Petit Palais is across the street from the Grand Palais and was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 by architect Charles Girault. It has been now named the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts.Most of the collection is the legacy of Auguste Dutui and includes Poussin's The Massacre of the Innocents, Ruben's Prosperpina, and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait with Poodle. There are also Impressionist selections from the nineteenth century by Pisarro, Morisot, Cassatt, Manet, Renoir, and Gauguin.

Petit Palais

Ave. Winston Churchill, 8th arr.

Tel. 01 42 65 12 73

Métro : Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau.

Open 10AM - 5:40PM daily (closed Monday and holidays)

 

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Comments

[Evelyn]

I love the white one that looks like it is in the snow. You don't often see snow in these kinds of murals. Well done...thanks for sharing!

[Jean P in MN]

Charming reminder to look up occasionally. I love the little animal insets.