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After winning the Prix de Rome in 1813, James Pradier was set the task of executing a marble nude over the course of a four-year stay in Italy. The work was exhibited at the 1819 Salon under the title Nymph, although critics were quick to observe that the subject was in fact a bacchante; some noted that Pradier had been inspired by the famed classical Venus Callipyge, though
Title: La Poésie Légère. Artist: James Pradier (French, 1790–1852) Founder: Cast by Delafontaine Foundry. Date: mid-19th century. Culture: French. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 14 3/16 × 6 1/2 × 5 in. (36 × 16.5 × 12.7 cm) Classification: Sculpture-Bronze. Credit Line: Gift of David and Constance Yates, in memory of ...
James Pradier. A Swiss-born French sculptor, James Pradier (1790–1852) – was best known for his neoclassical style work. Pradier was born in Geneva, but left in 1807 to go and work with his brother Charles-Simon, an engraver, in Paris. He became successful studying under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in Paris and winning a ‘Prix de Rome ...
Pradier was born in 1790 in Geneva to a family of horologists, like his celebrated namesake Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). He apprenticed as a watchcase engraver and then trained at Geneva's Ecole de Dessin before joining his elder brother, engraver Charles-Simon Pradier, in Paris around 1807-1808. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and ...
Jahrhundert > Jean-Jacques (genannt James) Pradier (1790-1852) Dieser französische Bildhauer wurde in Genf in einer protestantischen Familie geboren, die nach der Aufhebung des Edikts von Nantes Zuflucht in der Schweiz gefunden hatte. Er wird in Frankreich eine durch die Aufträge vom Hof beflügelte Karriere machen.
James Pradier (1790-1852) et la sculpture française de la génération romantique. Catalogue raisonné. Zürich/Lausanne: Swiss Institute for Art Research; Milan: 5 Continents Edition, 2010. Cost: CHF 140. (ca. $120.) Charles Baudelaire blamed him for the "pitiable state of sculpture today" and alleged that "his talent is cold and academic ...
First exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1848, this was Pradier's first work on this subject. A second bronze version, now at the Dahesh Museum in New York and practically identical to this one in the Royal Collection, was cast by the founder Victor Paillard in time for the 1851 London Great Exhibition. Pradier also brought for the 1851 Exhibition two small versions of the bronze, which he made ...
