Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it.

Bartholdi had made a first model of his concept in 1870.

Before starting his commission, Bartholdi had traveled to the United States and personally selected New York Harbor as the site for the statue.

The plan of Bartholdi having been approved, more than 1, 000, 000 francs were raised by subscription throughout France for the building of the statue.

Bartholdi crossed the United States twice by rail, and met many Americans whom he felt would be sympathetic to the project.

Though Bartholdi greatly admired the United States Constitution, he chose to inscribe " JULY IV MDCCLXXVI " on the tablet, thus associating the date of the country's Declaration of Independence with the concept of liberty.

* 1878: The Bartholdi Fountain in Bartholdi Park, the United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D. C., United States ;

* Statue of Lafayette and Washington by Bartholdi, Place des États-Unis ( United States Plaza ), Paris, France, 1895

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples.

Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye.

In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.

Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty.

However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty such as that depicted in Eugène Delacroix's famed Liberty Leading the People ( 1830 ).

Among its members were Laboulaye, Paul de Rémusat, William Waddington, Henri Martin, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Oscar Gilbert Lafayette, and Bartholdi.

Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War.

In 1881 Eiffel was contacted by Auguste Bartholdi who was in need of an engineer to help him to realise the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

According to sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.

Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects ; in the late 1860s, he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said.

Any large project was further delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, in which Bartholdi served as a major of militia.

The face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother.

Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand ; he settled on a tabula ansata, a keystone-shaped tablet used to evoke the concept of law.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 4 October 1904 ) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

In 1879, Bartholdi was awarded design patent for the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi was an officer himself during this period, attached to Garibaldi.

This statue was sculpted by Frédéric Bartholdi, who also created the Statue of Liberty.

This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the " Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty ", the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal's construction The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts.

Kastler was born in Guebwiller ( Alsace, German Empire ) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921.

The sonnet was written for and donated to an auction, conducted by the " Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty " to raise funds to build the pedestal.

The signal was given, and Bartholdi, together with Richard Butler and David H. King Jr., whose firm built the pedestal and erected the statue, let the veil fall from her face.

The sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, one of Laboulaye's friends, turned the idea into reality.

Consultations with the metalwork foundry Gaget, Gauthier & Co. led Bartholdi to conclude that the skin should be made of copper sheets, beaten to shape by the repoussé method.

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Rebecca Loos ( born Rebecca Loos Bartholdi ; 19 June 1977 ) is a Spanish-born Anglo-Dutch model and media personality, who was brought to media attention following claims that she conducted an affair with the married football player David Beckham — while employed as his personal assistant.

In 2004, Bartholdi & Gue demonstrated that this shape is indeed ideal for facilities with 150 doors or less.

Other statues in the park include the Marquis de Lafayette, modeled by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated at the Centennial, July 4, 1876, Abraham Lincoln, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown ( 1870 ), and the James Fountain ( 1881 ), a Temperance fountain with the figure of Charity who empties her jug of water, aided by a child ; it was donated by Daniel Willis James and sculpted by Adolf Donndorf.

At Rome Cornelius participated, with other members of his fraternity, in the decoration of the Casa Bartholdi and the Villa Massimi, and where thus employed he was also engaged upon designs for the illustration of the Nibelungenlied.

The painting is contemporary with the first small scale model made by Lefebvre's fellow-Frenchman Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | Frédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed.

" As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue.