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(1) Charles-Antoine Bridan
(b Ravières, Burgundy, 31 July 1730; d Paris, 28 April 1805). He was a pupil of Jean-Joseph Vinache and won the Prix de Rome in 1754. Following a period in Paris at the Ecole Royale des Elèves Protégés, he was in Rome at the Académie de France from 1757 to 1762. On his return to France he was accepted (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1764 and received (reçu) as an academician in 1772 on presentation of the group the Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (marble; Paris, Louvre). The somewhat flaccid quality of this work is also apparent in the statue Vulcan Presenting Venus with the Arms of Aeneas (marble, exh. Salon 1781; Paris, Luxembourg Gardens) and in his marble statues of Sébastien Leprestre de Vauban (exh. Salon 1785) and Bayard (1790; both now Versailles, Château), commissioned for the Crown by Charles-Claude de Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte d’Angiviller, director of the Bâtiments du Roi, for the series of ‘Illustrious Frenchmen’.
Part of the Bridan family
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