Project Description
Huile sur toile
Dimensions : 35 cm x 46 cm
Perspective of the construction of the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais dedicated "to Monsieur Albert Hauch, grateful tribute »
Signed below the dedication
Small and Grand Palace construction. Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1900.
Gaston Jobbe-Duval
Born at the end of the 19th century.
Member of French Artists since 1906. Received state aid : “Encouragement and assistance to artists (painters, sculptors…), vendor records, donors and collectors. Incentives, compensation and relief, 26 January 1894 – 12 August 1895.
Source : Benezit and National Archives Paris Fontainebleau Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
The Grand Palace
Is built in Paris from 1897, for the World Expo scheduled for 15 April , instead of the vast but uncomfortable Palais de l’Industrie of 1855. “Monument consecrated by the Republic to the glory of French art”, as indicated by the pediment of the west wing (Antin Palace), its original vocation was to host major official artistic events in the capital.
In the years 1960, Le Corbusier wanted the Grand Palais to be demolished in order to set up the Musée d'Art du XXe century of which André Malraux entrusted him with the realization. The death of the architect, the , end the project.
By decree of , the nave is classified as a historic monument. A new decree of , protects the Grand Palais in its entirety.
The Little Palace
In November 1895 a competition is launched in order to create a new axis connecting the’Esplanade des Invalides to Champs-Elysées, with the construction of a new bridge pont Alexandre III.
The project of 1894 envisages for the first time the destruction of the Palace of Industry, built along the Champs-Elysées for the Universal Exhibition of 1855, and in its place, the construction of two palaces.
The winner, the architect Charles Girault (1851-1932) which is committed to preserving as much as possible the trees of Carré Marigny, begins work in the fall 1897, they will last two years.
On a monumental base, the noble floor or first floor, is arranged to accommodate the works.
the entrance pavilion has on the outside a decoration sculpted by Jean-Antoine Injalbert, Louis Convers, Desiré-Maurice Ferrary and René de Saint-Marceaux; to inner cupola is painted by Albert Besnard.
The vaults of the sculpture galleries are the work of Fernand Cormon. Ferdinand Humbert directs the left gallery and Alfred Roll, the one on the right.
The dome of one of the round pavilions is executed by Maurice Denis.
The architect Charles Girault designed it according to a trapezoidal plan comprising four bodies of buildings distributed around a semi-circular interior garden bordered by a peristyle.
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