Reclining Figure: Festival, Bronze sculpture in the Tuileries Garden, 1st arrondissement, Paris, France

Reclining Figure: Festival is a 1951 bronze by Henry Moore, installed in 2000 in the Tuileries Garden at the foot of the staircase leading to the Musée de l'Orangerie. The dark, patinated sculpture shows an elongated abstract figure reclining: a rounded form arches like a bent leg on the left, the mass slopes to an upright pierced form with a flat-topped head, and two limb-like shapes extend right, one ending in a small ball. It rests on a two-tiered pale stone pedestal with a black plaque naming Moore and the work.

Henry Moore made Reclining Figure in bronze in 1951. It was installed in the Tuileries Garden in 2000, together with about a dozen other contemporary works. It stands at the foot of the staircase leading to the Musée de l'Orangerie, replacing Aristide Maillol's Hommage à Cézanne, which was moved to another part of the garden.

The title Reclining Figure: Festival refers to the 1951 Festival of Britain, for which Moore made the work; the plaster original is now in the Tate. The bronze in the Tuileries, installed in 2000, stands at the foot of the staircase leading to the Musée de l'Orangerie, where it replaced Maillol's Hommage à Cézanne.

The sculpture stands at the foot of the staircase leading up to the Musée de l'Orangerie, in the Tuileries Garden. It has been in place since 2000, when it replaced Aristide Maillol's Hommage à Cézanne, which was moved to another part of the garden. Look for the pale two-tiered stone pedestal and the small black plaque naming Henry Moore and the work.

The sculpture was placed in the Tuileries in 2000 along with about a dozen other contemporary works, at the foot of the staircase leading to the Musée de l'Orangerie. It took the spot previously occupied by Aristide Maillol's Hommage à Cézanne, which was moved to another part of the garden.