Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris

The Petit Palais—officially the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris—was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, when Paris needed a new showpiece to replace the older Palais de l’Industrie from the 1855 World’s Fair. In 1894, a design competition was held for the exhibition area, and Charles Girault won, turning the “Grand Palais” backdrop into a stage for a new, Beaux-Arts museum. Construction began on 10 October 1897 and finished in April 1900, with a reported cost of £400,000 at the time. Girault’s architecture looks back to late 17th- and early 18th-century French styles, and he echoes elements associated with the Château de Chantilly, including references to its stables. The building officially became the Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris in 1902, and it has been listed as a monument historique since 1975. …

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