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-	The '''Petit Palais''' (Small Palace) is a [[museum]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Built for the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Universal Exhibition]] in 1900 to [[Charles Girault]]'s designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris'').	+
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-	Arranged around a octi-circular courtyard and garden, the palace is similar to the nearby [[Grand Palais]]. Its [[Ionic order|ionic]] columns, grand porch and dome echo those of the [[Invalides]] across the river. The tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses is the work of sculptor [[Jean Antoine Injalbert]].	+
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-	The current exhibits are divided into sections: the Dutuit Collection of [[medieval]] and [[Renaissance]] paintings, drawings and ''objets d'art''; the Tuck Collection of 18th century furniture and the City of Paris collection of works by French artists, such as [[Jean Ingres]], [[Eugène Delacroix]] and [[Gustave Courbet]].	+
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-	The Petit Palais has served as a model for other public buildings, notably for the [[Royal Museum for Central Africa]] near [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], and the [[Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago)|Museo de Bellas Artes]] (Fine Arts Museum) in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], Chile.	+
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-	The museum displays a remarkable collection of paintings and sculptures by Delacroix, Courbet, Carpeaux, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cezanne, Maillol, Rodin, etc.	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	* [[List of museums in Paris]]	+
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