Petit Palais: Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
The Petit Palais (Small Palace) is a beautiful building featuring several art collections dating from Antiquity to 1920. The Petit Palais is also known as the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts. The Petit Palais, a built-in luxurious Belle Epoque style for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, was converted into a museum in 1902. The ornate sculptural details and murals on the structure create an ideal backdrop for the artworks on display.
Masterworks of European painting by Eugène Delacroix, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Jacques Louis David, and other renowned artists; and a wonderful collection of Impressionist paintings by Bonnard, Cézanne, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Vuillard are among the collection's highlights. And Claude Monet's Soleil Couchant sur la Seine (Sunset on the Seine), Rembrandt's self-portrait, Fragonard's Jérôme de La Lande, Delacroix's Combat du Giaour et du Pacha, and Charles-Alexandre Giron's La Parisienne are among the works worth seeing.
Address: Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Official site: http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en
