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Ferdinand Barbedienne

French metalworker and manufacturer

Summary

French metalworker and manufacturer

Field	Value
name	Ferdinand Barbedienne
image	Ferdinand Barbedienne by Thomas Couture.jpg
caption	Ferdinand Barbedienne (Thomas Couture)
birth_date
birth_place	Saint-Pierre-en-Auge
death_date
death_place	Paris
resting_place	Père Lachaise Cemetery
occupation	metalworker and manufacturer
awards	Knight of the Legion of Honour 1863, Officer of the Legion of Honour 1867, Commander of the Legion of Honour 1874

Ferdinand Barbedienne's tombstone in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris

Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder.

Career

The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris. In 1838 he went into partnership with Achille Collas (1795-1859), who had just invented a machine to create miniature bronze replicas of statues. Together they started a business selling miniatures of antique statues from museums all over Europe, thus democratising art and making it more accessible to households. From 1843 they extended their scope by reproducing the work of living artists and also diversified by making enamelled household objects. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 the firm briefly had to switch to cannon founding owing to the shortage of metals but resumed business afterwards. Following Barbedienne's death in 1892, he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and the firm was carried on by his nephew Gustave Leblanc until 1952.

Among the principal artists reproduced by the firm were Antoine Louis Barye and Auguste Rodin.

References

French Legion of Honour]]
Information translated from [[:fr:Ferdinand Barbedienne. Ferdinand Barbedienne]] entry in French Wiki
Information taken from the [http://www.bronze-gallery.com/info/info.cfm?infoID=18 Bronze Gallery] site

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