Chimera Overlooking the Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris

In the foreground, a weathered stone sculpture of a chimera is depicted in profile, facing toward the right. The creature features a beak, feathered wings folded against its back, and a hunched posture. In the background, the sharp, dark metal spire of Notre-Dame de Paris rises against a blue sky with scattered clouds, flanked by the cathedral's stone buttresses and lead-covered roof. A secondary stone figure stands on the roof ridge, and the cityscape of Paris is visible in the distant periphery.

These chimeras were added during the 19th-century restoration of Notre-Dame by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, intended to evoke a romanticized medieval aesthetic rather than representing original 12th-century theological gargoyles.