Francis de Saint-Vidal explained

Birth Date:	16 January 1840
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 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), 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.^[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]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/00181758 Fontaine Saint-Vidal
2. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/caran_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=ARC00229 Albums des salons du XIXe siècle; salon de 1898
3. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84157558 Berlioz