Antique & Vintage Postcards

Early photomechanical postcard showing the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées in Paris, viewed from across the wide forecourt. The Beaux-Arts facade is fully visible with its massive glass-and-iron barrel vault roof, the quadriga bronze sculpture crowning the entrance pavilion, and classical colonnades extending to either side. A horse-drawn carriage passes in the foreground left, with scattered pedestrians and an empty cart at the curb. The trees flanking the building are young, consistent with the period shortly after the building's completion for the 1900 Exposition Universelle.