Jacques-Léonard Maillet
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Jacques-Léonard Maillet was a French academic sculptor of modest reputation, whose themes were of neoclassical and biblical inspiration; his public commissions were in large part for the programs of d
Lavoisier on the façade of the Cour Napoléon, Louvre
James Pradier
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James Pradier was a Genevan-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.
Jacques-Léonard Maillet
…of Pierre-Philippe Thomire Napoleon's official maker of bronzes d'ameublement winning a second prize in the Prix de Rome, 1841. Then he studied under James Pradier, where he absorbed Pradier's style, combining a neoclassical treatment with sentimental subject matter and a taste for genre, but developed a reputation…
James Pradier, portrait by Marie-Alexandre Alophe
Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque, Portrait of Pradier (1848)
Memorial bust of the duc d'Orléans, bronze (1842), Louvre
Satyr and Bacchante, plaster (1834), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille