The Petit Palais​,​ Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

The Petit Palais, officially the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and is one of the city's finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture. Designed by architect Charles Girault, the museum combines an elegant façade, monumental entrance, ornate ironwork, and a magnificent central garden surrounded by colonnades. Since becoming a museum, the Petit Palais has housed an extensive collection spanning Antiquity through the early twentieth century, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, manuscripts, and objets d’art. It had a rich exhibition program in 2025, presenting around twenty large-scale oil paintings that explore urban solitude through Parisian scenes, with two new works created especially for the occasion — establishing a dialogue with the museum's permanent collections. Additionally, the exhibition Visages d'artistes: From Gustave Courbet to Annette Messager offered a thought-provoking journey through self-portraiture and artistic identity, featuring paintings, drawings, photographs, and objects that traced how artists have constructed and projected their personal image across different eras and techniques.