James Pradier

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Jean Jacques Pradier
Pradier's grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetery

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

Life

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

Pradier spent the years 1812 to 1819 in Rome , where he mainly copied antiquities. When he returned to Paris in 1819, he was able to record a success in the same year with his first entry, Centaur and Bacchante, at the Salon.

Other 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 triumphal arch of the carousel, four colossal figures of the Fama in the pediment of the Triumphal Arch de l'Etoile, the statue of Fortune publique at the stock exchange, the statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Geneva, the three Graces, Phryne, the morning, Flora, Prometheus and Pheidias (in the Tuileries Gardens), four Apostles in the Madeleine Church and the twelve colossal Victorias on the grave monument of Napoleon I in the Invalidenhotel.

In 1827 he was appointed lecturer at the École des beaux arts in Paris. At the same time he won King Louis Philippe as a very generous patron .

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

Other works

  • Bust of Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans

  • Bust of Louis-Philippe I.

  • psyche

  • Niobid , 1822, Louvre

  • The three graces , 1831 Louvre

  • Sappho , 1852, Musée d'Orsay

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SURNAME Pradier, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pradier, Jean Jacques (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1852
Place of death Rueil near Paris