Germany in Paris: Answer

Entry Portico, Hôtel Beauharnais, c. 1807. 

78, rue de Lille. 7th arrondissement. 

Metro : Musée d’Orsay or Assemblée Nationale

Photo: Emily Reed and Becca Barton

Now the entrance to the German Embassy, this imposing Egyptianizing portico is normally inaccessible behind these green doors. But the ever-intrepid Emily and Becca were there just as a car was exiting the embassy, facilitating this rare view of the portico.

Triumph! Photo: Becca Barton and Emily Reed

You can spy the massive portico through the doors, with its cavetto cornice with rearing uraeus and solar disk, supported by columns with lotus capitals. Images in sunken relief of the enthroned goddess Mut flank the stairway. The marble sculptures of Antinous, now at the Musée Marmottan (see Almost at Le Bon Marché: Answer) are thought to have originally been installed in the niches visible on the sides of the portico (Humbert 1998).