Pierre Victor Ledure

Pierre-Victor Ledure, (1783–1840?) was a French marchand-fabricant (merchant-manufacturer) of bronzes, specialising in ormolu clock cases. He often worked together with the clockmaker Claude Hémon (1770–1820), who supplied the clockworks (Claude Hémon became a Maître Horloger (Master Clockmacker) in 1770 and had a workshop in the Rue Saint Martin in Paris between 1812 and 1820). Ledure's workshop is listed in Paris between 1813 and 1840, first in the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, then in the Rue Vivienne and finally in the Rue d'Angoulême.

Biography Pierre-Victor Ledure was born in Paris in 1783. He was the son of Laurent Ledure and Marie-Marguérite, née Lainé, who died in 1788, when Ledure was only five years old. Ledure became an apprentice of André-Antoine Ravrio (1759–1814), a renowned bronzier. Ledure formed a close friendship with Ravrio and his adopted son, Louis-Stanislas Lenoir-Ravrio (1783–1846), who both acted as best men at Ledure's wedding in 1811. Ledure's wife, Geneviève, née Dartois, was the daughter of the gilder Edme Dartois († 1796). Geneviève's brother, Jean-Edme Dartois, was a bronzier too, with whom Pierre-Victor Ledure shared a workshop for a certain time.