Parent Category: Statues Paris

Stone statue of stone statue of Cambrai outside the main façade of Gare du Nord.

Auguste Ottin's statue of Cambrai (1865) is one of the smaller statues representing French towns connected to Paris by rail.

Cambrai leans on a shield showing the town insignia with her left hand. The right arm is hidden under a long garment.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

The sculpture of round sandstone shapes stacked in a column is in Jardin des Tuileries.

Column was created by Liverpool born artist Tony Cragg (born 1949) in 2001. The light-coloured sandstone sculpture stands about 3m high.

The different spheres are precariously stacked on of each other, making the column slant.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

The stone Statue of Ceres - or Summer - by Guillaume Cousteau the Elder is in Jardin des Tuileries.

Ceres was the Roman goddess of growing plants, especially cereal, and motherly love. Here she stands with an armful of corn and a raised left arm. Conventionally she would be depicted with a sceptre, but in this case the lower parts of the arm are no longer there.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

The stone figure of Cologne is above the third plinth from the right outside Gare du Nord.

The figure of Cologne by Mathurin Moreau (1865) is one of the eight larger statues on the cornice line of Gare du Nord, representing international destinations reached from Paris by this railway (at that time) as well as Paris.

They are from left to right:
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
Warsaw
Brussels
Paris
Berlin
Cologne
London
Vienna

Cologne stands with her right hand on her hip. She wears a gown draped over her left shoulder and a crown. Her left hand is leaning on a large shield with the insignia of the town.