Francis de Saint-Vidal

French sculptor and medalist

Francis de Saint-Vidal
Bust of Jeanne Granier
Born	16 January 1840 Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Died	18 August 1900(1900-08-18) (aged 60) Paris, French Third Republic
Occupation	Sculptor

Francis de Saint-Vidal (16 January 1840 – 18 August 1900) was a 19th-century French sculptor and medalist. He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

Works

Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven at Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux
La nuit, marble statue, 1884
Fountain representing the five parts of the world under the Eiffel Tower for the Exposition Universelle (1889), cast produced by the fonderie de Tusey [fr] (exact title: La Nuit essayant d'arrêter le génie de la lumière qui s'efforce d'éclairer la vérité - illustration) today on the esplanade des Invalides.^[1] It was at the time the subject of a book by Bouniceau-Gesmon and published in Le Monde illustré n° 1656 22 December 1888.
Bronze statue of Alphonse de Neuville, Place Wagram in Paris, 1889, missing.^[2]
Funerary monument to Alphonse de Neuville at Montmartre Cemetery, 23rd division, 1894.
Statue of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles).
Ain El Fouara Fountain in Sétif (1898)
Monument in honor of Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset (1717–1773), built at the intersection between rue Bonaparte and rue de l'Abbaye in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and inaugurated 3 September 1900 by President Émile Loubet.
Monument to Hector Berlioz (and in Mainz a work after this monument by Francis de Saint-Vidal).^[3]