Jean Jacques Pradier | Tutt’Art@

- Jean Jacques Pradier, a French sculptor, born in Geneva, May 23, 1792, died near Paris, June 4, 1852. He belonged to a family which had left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, was sent to Paris while yet a boy, studied under the sculptor Lemot, and received from Napoleon a small pension. He gained a medal when 21 years of age, and the next year obtained by his “ Philoctetes at Lemnos“ the great prize of sculpture, which entitled him to a residenc