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Maindron, Etienne-Hippolyte
(b Champtoceaux, Maine-et-Loire, 16 Dec 1801; d Paris, 21 March 1884). French sculptor. He studied at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Angers and from 1827 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He was a student and later an assistant of Pierre-Jean David d’Angers. He also collaborated with Henri-Joseph-François Triqueti on the bronze doors of La Madeleine (1834–41). A number of Maindron’s own works represent confrontations between Christianity and paganism. He won great acclaim for his statue Velléda (plaster, exh. Salon 1839, Angers, Mus. B.-A.; marble, Paris, Louvre). The subject, from Châteaubriand’s Les Martyrs, is a Druidic priestess, consumed by her passion for a Roman Christian, Eudore; she represents both the Gallic spirit and the death wish of the pagan world.
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