France Crowning Art and Industry

48°50′06″N 2°13′12″E / 48.83507°N 2.21987°E / 48.83507; 2.21987France Crowning Art and Industry (French: La France couronnant l'Art et l'Industrie) is a 6.50 m (21 ft) tall[1] limestone sculpture group which decorated the top of the entrance of Palais de l'Industrie, the main building of the 1855 international exhibition in Paris.

The center group, composed of the three allegories (France, Art and Industry) is a work by sculptor Élias Robert.

[2] A bas-relief on the same subject, entitled France distributing wreaths to the Arts and Industry, was sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Louis Roman in 1830 and is located on the wall behind the seat of the president of the National Assembly in the hemicycle of Palais Bourbon.

[3] In 1851, Georges Diebolt sculpted La France rémunératrice (Remunerative France), a colossal female figure wearing and distributing wreaths, for an award ceremony on the Champs-Élysées, which was held for the French industrialists who had been distinguished at the London Great Exhibition.

[4] A small size bronze reduction was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1855,[5] and is now displayed at the Musée d'Orsay.