Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — The Sculptor. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Sculptor.

The distinguished French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, by whose hands the repousse statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” has been shaped, was bom at Colmar, in France, and is about 60 years of age. As a pnpii of the famous A y Scheffer, his artistic ability was recognized in the bas-relief of

“Francesca di Rimini,” executed in 185 Z His name was tirst brought into prominence, however, in the United States in 1872, when his well - known staWie of Lafayette was forwarded as a gift from the people of France and placed in Union Square, New York City. At the Centennial, where he was one of the French Commissioners, he was awarded a medal for the exhibition of the bronze s atues of "Peace,” “The Young Vine Grower,” and “Genius in the Grasp - of Misery.” He i» also a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in his native oountry.