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(2) Pierre-Charles Bridan
(b Paris, 10 Nov 1766; d Versailles, 4 Aug 1836). Son of (1) Charles-Antoine Bridan. He studied with his father; in 1791 he won the Académie Royale’s first prize for sculpture and in 1793 went to Italy as a pensionnaire. He remained in Rome until 1799, when he returned to Paris. He contributed to Napoleon I’s monumental projects in Paris, notably providing 12 sections of bronze low relief for the Colonne de la Grande Armée (1806–10) in the Place Vendôme and a statue of a cannonier for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (1807–8). In 1813 he was commissioned by the imperial administration to produce an enormous elephant as the central feature of a fountain for the Place de la Bastille. Never cast in bronze, it remained in the square in its plaster version until after 1830. During the Bourbon Restoration (1815–30) he produced the statue of Bertrand Duguesclin (marble, 1824) for the Pont de la Concorde in Paris. In 1831 the work was removed from the bridge and in 1966 sent to the military academy at Coëtquidan. Bridan also executed the tomb of Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily (1826; Tonnerre, Hôp.). These two works adopt the same costume medievalism found in his father’s statue of Bayard.
Part of the Bridan family
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