The early years of aviation. Opening day of the first air show at the Grand Palais, Paris in 1909.

© Ullstein Bild / Roger-Viollet

Weapons handling by wounded soldiers after treatment

Collection Rmn-Grand Palais

The nave of the Grand Palais after restoration, 2012.

Photo © 2015, Rmn-GP-Grand Palais

Visuel de l'affiche de l'exposition "Sites Éternels", au Grand Palais du 14 décembre 2016 au 9 janvier 2017

Photo et graphisme Iconem & DGAM

Female nurses at the Grand Palais hospital during the First World War, 1916.

© Rmn-GP-fonds EMOC

The Red Buoy, Saint-Tropez, 1895

Paul Signac

The Grand Palais under construction

Henri Lemoine

Front of the Palais de la Découverte

© Palais de la découverte / C. Rousselin

War 1914-1918. "Naval fusiliers. The cannon manoeuvre". The Grand Palais, Paris, 12 October 1914.

© Charles Lansiaux / BHVP / Roger-Viollet

1900 Universal Exhibition. French painting section in the Salon d'Honneur of the Grand Palais.

© Léon et Lévy / Roger-Viollet

The Lacemaker

Johannes Vermeer

The Astronomer

Johannes Vermeer

Cover for "50 years of National Galleries exhibitions at the Grand Palais" catalogue

© 2015, photo Rmn-GP/DR

Piles for the foundations of the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées constructed for the 1900 Universal Exhibition.

© BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image BnF

The first international "Salon de l'aéronautique" (air show) at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1909.

© Collection Roger Viollet / Roger-Viollet

Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Paris, Orsay museum

Drawing of Eiffel Tower

Deroy Auguste Victor (1825-1906)

Aviator Jean Bécheler and his aircraft, a Caudron C68, landing in front of the Grand Palais in 1922.

Photo © BNF

La Mer Orageuse (The Stormy Sea) or La Vague (The Wave), 1870

Gustave Courbet

Statue "The Return Home", in front of the Grand Palais.

© Gallica BNF

The bronze lion on the west side of the Gate of Supreme Harmony

Square of the Gate of Supreme Harmony under snow

Yedao Liu

Gate of Heavenly Purity

The lion in front of the Gate of Heavenly Purity - 2

The endpiece on the uppermost roof ridge on the Hall of Supreme Harmony

Hall of Central Harmony

The crane statue in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony

Ten figurines on the roof corners of the Hall of Supreme Harmony - 3