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.

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.

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.

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

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 ).

* The war memorial, one of seven replicas ( in France ) of Bartholdi ’ s Statue of Liberty.

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.

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

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

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.

** Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor ( b. 1834 )

* April 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor ( d. 1904 )

Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and as a liaison officer to General Giuseppe Garibaldi, representing the French government and the Army of the Vosges.

Chaumont AB is located not far from the workshops of Frédéric Bartholdi – the French architect which designed the Statue of Liberty.

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.

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

" 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.

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

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.

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

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.