Francis de Saint-Vidal

Francis de Saint-Vidal
Bust of Jeanne Granier
Born	16 January 1840 Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Died	18 August 1900(1900-08-18) (aged 60) Paris, French Third Republic
Occupation	Sculptor

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
  Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux
• La nuit, marble statue, 1884
• Fountain representing the five parts of the world under the
  esplanade des Invalides.^[1] 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.^[2]
• 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 (1898)
• Monument in honor of Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset (1717–1773), built at the intersection between rue Bonaparte and rue de l'Abbaye in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and inaugurated 3 September 1900 by President Émile Loubet.
• Monument to Hector Berlioz (and in Mainz a work after this monument by Francis de Saint-Vidal).^[3]

References

External links

• Francis de Saint-Vidal on
  data.bnf.fr
• SAINT-VIDAL Francis, de on Société des amis des monuments parisiens