Francis de Saint-Vidal

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 (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. 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. 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).