The Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi French Art Deco medal

Description: Shipping from Europe with tracking number /bronze ,60mm,Paris mint The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)Main article: Statue of LibertyFront page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, week ending 13 June 1885The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is Liberty Enlightening the World, better known as the Statue of Liberty. Soon after the establishment of the French Third Republic, the project of building some suitable memorial to show the fraternal feeling existing between the republics of the United States and France was suggested, and in 1874 the Union Franco-Américaine (Franco-American Union) was established by Edouard de Laboulaye.[3] Bartholdi's hometown in Alsace had just passed into German control in the Franco-Prussian War. These troubles in his ancestral home of Alsace are purported to have further influenced Bartholdi's own great interest in independence, liberty, and self-determination.[citation needed] Bartholdi subsequently joined the Union Franco-Américaine, among whose members were Laboulaye, Paul de Rémusat, William Waddington, Henri Martin, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Oscar Gilbert Lafayette,[3] François Charles Lorraine, and Louis François Lorraine.[clarification needed]Bartholdi in 1880The Statue of LibertyBartholdi broached the idea of a massive statue and once its design was approved, the Union Franco-Américaine raised more than 1 million francs throughout France for its building.[3] In 1879, Bartholdi was awarded design patent U.S. Patent D11,023 for the Statue of Liberty.[clarification needed] On 4 July 1880, the statue was formally delivered to the American minister in Paris, the event being celebrated by a great banquet.[3] In October 1886, the structure was officially presented as the joint gift of the French and American people, and installed on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor .[3] It was rumored in France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi's mother.[9] The statue is 46m high (151 feet and 1 inch), and the top of the torch is at an elevation of 93m (305 feet 1 inch) from mean low-water mark.[10] It was the largest work of its kind that had been completed up to that time.[3] Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, 2 August 1834.[3] He was born to a family of German Protestant (Alsatian) heritage, with his family name romanticized from Barthold.[4] His parents were Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791–1836) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi (née Beysser; 1801–1891). Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.[citation needed]Bartholdi's father, a property owner and counselor to the prefecture, died when Bartholdi was two years old.[4] Afterwards, Bartholdi moved with his mother and his older brother Jean-Charles to Paris, where another branch of their family resided.[4] With the family often returning to spend long periods of time in Colmar,[4] the family maintained ownership and visited their house in Alsace, which later became the Bartholdi Museum. While in Colmar, Bartholdi took drawing lessons from Martin Rossbach. In Paris, he studied sculpture with Antoine Étex. He also studied architecture under Henri Labrouste and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.[4]Bartholdi attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a baccalauréat in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts[citation needed] as well as painting under Ary Scheffer[3][4] in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the Musée de la Vie Romantique.[citation needed] Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him and his life.[3]

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