James Pradier

James Pradier (* May 23, 1790 in Geneva, † June 4, 1852 in Rueil near Paris; actually Jean Jacques Pradier ) was a French-Swiss sculptor.

Life

Pradier, Geneva came from a family. The engraver Charles Simon Pradier was his brother, the painter John Pradier his son. With 19 years Pradier in 1809 in Paris pupil of François -Frédéric Lemot national at the École supérieure des beaux -arts.

The years 1812-1819 Pradier spent in Rome and copied there mainly antiques. When he returned in 1819 to Paris, he was able to record his first submission Centaur and Bacchante at the Salon a success in the same year.

Further works are, a son of Niobe, a psyche, a Venus, Sappho and Atalante ( all in the Louvre), the grave monument of the Duke of Berri St. Louis ( in Versailles ), a relief on the Arch of roundabouts, four colossal figures of Fama in the gable pictures of the arc de Triomphe de l' Etoile, the statue of Fortune publique on the stock exchange, the statue of Jean -Jacques Rousseau in Geneva, the Three Graces, Phryne, the morning, Flora, Prometheus and Phidias ( in the Tuileries Gardens ), four apostles in the Madeleine Church and the twelve colossal Victories on the grave monument of Napoleon I in disability Hotel.

In 1827 he was appointed to the faculty in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. At the same time he won King Louis Philippe as an extremely generous patron.

Pradier is the successor of Clodion ( Claude Michel ). At the age of 62 years Pradier died on 4 June 1852 in Rueil, near Paris.

Other works

  • Bust of Maxime Ducamp
  • Bust of Louise Colet
  • Bust of Charles Percier
  • Bust of Ferdinand Philippe d' Orléans
  • Bust of Louis -Philippe I.
  • Satyrs et Bacchante, 1834, marble, Louvre
  • Psyché, 1824, marble, Louvre
  • Odalisque dansant, bronze, Louvre
  • Niobide blessé, 1822, marble, Louvre
  • Les Trois Graces, 1831, marble, Louvre
  • Diane et Endymion, terracotta, Louvre
  • La Toilette d' Atalante, 1850, marble, Louvre

Bust of Louis -Philippe I.

Psyche

Niobid, 1822, Louvre

The Three Graces, 1831 Louvre

Sappho, 1852, Musée d' Orsay

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