Pradier

(Baudelaire thus characterizes the sculptor Pradier: "He spends his life fattening ancient torsos, adjusting the coiffures atop their necks to those of kept women.")

Thermostat Matthew Guerrieri 2008

(Baudelaire thus characterizes the sculptor Pradier: "He spends his life fattening ancient torsos, adjusting the coiffures atop their necks to those of kept women.")

Archive 2008-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

This recipe is from Rollet-Pradier, a Parisian patisserie and tea shop, and it uses every scrap of the fruit, except the seeds.

Three Rivers Lemon Tart Lindy 2005

Pradier had received a commission to execute a statue representing Strasburg -- the statue which stands to-day in the Place de la Concorde, and which patriotic Frenchmen and Frenchwomen drape in mourning and half bury in immortelles, in memory of that city of Alsace which so long was French, but which to-day is German -- one of Germany's great prizes taken in the war of 1870.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

This fearful object, which would make a Pradier or Chantrey shudder, is painted and gilt annually.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

Pradier was born and grew up in presence of Mont Blanc, whose sublime grandeur may well inspire the dreams of the sculptor and ennoble him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

I had to make it worthy of the statue by Pradier that was given us by Sardou, and finally it was done to please me.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

Five years before her meeting with Hugo, Pradier had rather brutally severed his connection with her, and she had accepted the protection of a Russian nobleman.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

As a culminating indiscretion, his mother wrote to this sculptor, "who is David, or Pradier, or Ingres," a letter in which she treated him like a street boy.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

"The tomb of Napoleon by Visconte," and "the twelve colossal victories surrounding the sarcophagus by Pradier," are among the finest works of Parisian sculpture.

Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes J. M. Judy