The Petit Palais on Avenue Winston-Churchill in Paris was designed by Charles Girault, who won a competition in 1894. It was built for the Universal Exposition of 1900. The article names no client and gives the cost as 400,000 pounds sterling. Construction began on October 10, 1897, and finished in April 1900.
The article calls the style Beaux-Arts. Materials are stone, steel and concrete, with pink Vosges granite, gilt-bronze coupled columns, mosaic floors and marble-lined walls. It gives no dimensions, and it describes the courtyard as both semicircular and octi-circular.
The building was officially renamed in 1902 and listed as a monument historique in 1975. It joined Paris Musées on January 1, 2013. It houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts and had 1,187,637 visitors in 2023. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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