L'architecture & la sculpture à l'Exposition de 1900
A 1904 Paris publication by A. Guérinet documenting architecture and sculpture at the 1900 Exposition universelle, with photographic plates of the Petit Palais and its interiors. The pictures show a monumental stone facade with a double staircase, a glass-roofed exhibition hall crowded with visitors, and a close view of a carved wreath-and-cartouche ornament on a pillar. A designer could take from them the formal vocabulary of Beaux-Arts classicism: symmetrical stonework, garland relief, and ornate ironwork and glazing under a daylit vault.
