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Pierre-Charles Bridan
Pierre-Charles Bridan (1766–1836) was a French sculptor.
Pierre-Charles Bridan was a pupil of his father, the sculptor Charles-Antoine Bridan. He attended the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture where he won the Prix de Rome in 1791. Around 1812, he participated in the project to design of the Elephant of the Bastille. Bridan completed the plaster full-scale model of the elephant in 1814.
References.
- Museum of painting and sculpture, or,
Académie in Paris. He completed a marble sculpture "The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew" in 1772. In December 30, 1780 Bridan was appointed professor of sculpture. He trained his son Pierre-Charles Bridan who also became a sculptor.
References.
- Exhibition catalog Sculptors of The Louvre. French neo-classical sculptures. 1760 - 1830, Paris, Musée du Louvre, May 23 to September 3, 1990.
- Stanislas Lami: Dictionary of sculptors of the French school in the eighteenth century. Volume 1