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 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.

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.

As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans.

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

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 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.

In 2003, Fischman became a member of the poker-playing group " The Crew ," which also included Dutch Boyd, Bobby Boyd, David Smyth, Joe Bartholdi Jr, Tony Lazar and Brett Jungblut ( Jungblut and Bartholdi have both since left the group ).

The Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

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

During and after the July Monarchy of 1848, the park became the home of a large population of statues ; first the Queens and famous women of France, lined along the terraces ; then, in 1880s and 1890s, monuments to writers and artists, a small-scale model by Bartholdi of his Statue of Liberty and one modern sculpture by Zadkine.

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.

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.

* Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

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

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.

Delacroix's figure wears a pileus, and Bartholdi at first considered placing one on his figure as well.

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.

Statue of Vercingetorix by Frédéric Bartholdi | Bartholdi, on Place de Jaude, in Clermont-Ferrand

Many other monumental statues of Vercingetorix were erected in France during the 19th century, including one by Bartholdi on the Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand ( see first image ).

** Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886

Bartholdi, who received the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1886, died of tuberculosis, in Paris, on 4 October 1904.

* 1892: Fontaine Bartholdi, on the Place des Terreaux, in Lyon, France.

Statue of Vercingétorix by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi on the main square of the city

Later he demonstrated wireless telephony in Washington, D. C. on March 20, 1902, where voice and music transmissions were made over a third of a mile from the steamer Bartholdi to shore.

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

Bartholdi continued to develop the concept following his return to France.

* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )

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

" 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.

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

The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John La Farge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U. S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio.

The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.

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

Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold.