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Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French
Bronze Gallery
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Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder
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The son of a small farmer fromCalvados
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, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris. In 1838 he went into partnership with Achille Collas
Achille Collas (1795–1859) was a French engineer, inventor, writer and engraver who developed a way of mechanically creating engravings after medallions and other reliefs, and a machine to copy sculptures at a smaller scale, the so-called ...
(1795-1859), who had just invented a machine to create miniature bronze replicas of statues. Together they started a business selling miniatures of antique statues from museums all over Europe, thus democratising art and making it more accessible to households. From 1843 they extended their scope by reproducing the work of living artists and also diversified by making enamelled household objects. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 the firm briefly had to switch to cannon founding owing to the shortage of metals but resumed business afterwards. Following Barbedienne's death in 1892, he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and the firm was carried on by his nephew Gustave Leblanc until 1952.Information taken from thBronze Gallery
site Among the principal artists reproduced by the firm were Antoine Louis Barye and
Auguste Rodin
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See also
*List of works by Henri Chapu
Henri Chapu (1833–1891) was a French sculptor.
Chapu was born in Le Mée-sur-Seine on 30 September 1833. He trained at the École Gratuite de Dessin as a tapestry maker. In 1849 his successes led him to the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barbedienne, Ferdinand Metalworkers 1810 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French inventors 19th-century French engineers Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery