Pierre-Henri Ducos de la Haille
The fresco that decorates the forum in the very centre of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, the former function room during the Colonial Exposition of 1931, was created on a surface area of over 600 m² by the painter Pierre-Henri Ducos de la Haille (1889-1972), a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his seven assistants whose names can be read to the left of the entrance, along with those of his students.