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PRADIER, JAMES (1792–1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 240 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRADIER, See also:JAMES (1792–1852) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Geneva. He was a member of the French See also:Academy, and a popular sculptor of the pre-Romantic See also:period, representing in See also:France the See also:drawing-See also:room classicism which See also:Canova illustrated at See also:Rome. His See also:chief See also:works are the See also:Niobe See also:group (1822), "See also:Atalanta " (185o), " See also:Psyche " (1824), " See also:Sappho " (1852) (all is the Louvre), " See also:Prometheus " (Tuileries Gardens), a bas-See also:relief on the triumphal See also:arch of the Carrousel, the figures of " Fame " on the Arc de 1'Etoile, and a statue of J. J. See also:Rousseau for Geneva. Besides these mention should be made of his " Three See also:Graces (182I).

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