Francis de Saint-Vidal (16 January 1840 – 18 August 1900) was a 19th-century French sculptor and
medalist. He was a pupil of
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
Works
* Bust of
Ludwig van Beethoven at
Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux
* ''La nuit'', marble statue, 1884
* Fountain representing the five parts of the world under the
Eiffel tower for the
Exposition Universelle (1889)
The Exposition Universelle of 1889 () was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 5 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fourth of eight expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. It attracted more than thirty-two million visitors. The ...
, cast produced by the (exact title: ''La Nuit essayant d'arrêter le génie de la lumière qui s'efforce d'éclairer la vérité''
illustration today on the
esplanade des Invalides. It was at the time the subject of a book by Bouniceau-Gesmon and published in ''
Le Monde illustré'' n° 1656 22 December 1888.
* Bronze statue of
Alphonse de Neuville, Place Wagram in Paris, 1889, missing.
* Funerary monument to Alphonse de Neuville at
Montmartre Cemetery, 23rd division, 1894.
* Statue of
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at
Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles).
*
Ain El Fouara Fountain in
Sétif
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(1898)
* Monument in honor of
Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset
Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset (1717 – April 1773) was a French master at the Court of Auditors (France), Court of Auditors, physician and philanthropist.
He did struggle against the overcrowded hospitals (several patients in a single bed ...
(1717–1773), built at the intersection between
rue Bonaparte and
rue de l'Abbaye
Rue de l'Abbaye is a commercial street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, named after the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It has a length of some 170m and runs from the Rue Guillaume Apollinaire to the Rue de l'Echaudé. The street itself dat ...
in
Saint-Germain-des-Prés and inaugurated 3 September 1900 by President
Émile Loubet.
* Monument to
Hector Berlioz
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(and in Mainz a work after this monument by Francis de Saint-Vidal).
Berlioz
Gallica
References
External links
Francis de Saint-Vidal
on data.bnf.fr
SAINT-VIDAL Francis, de
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Société des amis des monuments parisiens
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19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
1840 births
Artists from Milan
1900 deaths
19th-century French male artists