Jean Jacques (James) Pradier (French, 1790 -1852):
A bronze figural group of Zephyr and Flora
signed to the drapery J.PRADIER, the base inscribed and dated J.Pradier / 1851, brown patina, raised on a black marble oval moulded plinth, 42.6cm high
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Provenance:
Acquired by a private UK collector, Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1991, 19th Century Sculpture, lot 64.

Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born, French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome and studied there from 1814 to 1818. He then worked under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris. In 1827 he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and Professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Amongst his chefs-d'oeuvre are the figures of Renommées in the spandrels of the Arc de Triomphe and the twelve Victoires surrounding Napoleon's tomb in the Invalides.