Editing James Pradier (section)

==Influence==
Pradier's importance as an artist in his day is demonstrated by the fact that his portrait is included in [[François Joseph Heim]]'s painting ''[[Charles X Distributing Prizes to Artists at the Salon of 1824]]'', now in the [[Louvre]] Museum, Paris.

Pradier has been largely forgotten in modern times. In 1846 [[Gustave Flaubert]] said of him, however:
:''This is a great artist, a true Greek, the most antique of all the moderns; a man who is distracted by nothing, not by politics, nor socialism, and who, like a true workman, sleeves rolled up, is there to do his task from morning until night with the will to do well and the love of his art.''

An exhibition, ''Statues de chair: sculptures de James Pradier (1790–1852)''  at Geneva's [[Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva)|Musée d'Art et d'Histoire]] (October 1985 – February 1986) and Paris, [[Musée du Luxembourg]] (February – May 1986), roused some interest in Pradier's career and aesthetic.
[[File:"THE TOILET OF ATALANTA" "JAMES PRADIER OF PARIS" from -Sculptures of Andromeda, the Toilet of Atalanta, Corinna, and a Naiad- MET DP323119 (cropped).jpg|thumb|''The Toilet of Atalanta'' (photographed by [[Philip Henry Delamotte]] ca. 1859)]]
Pradier's students included:
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*[[Marie-Noémi Cadiot]], 1828–1888
*[[Henri Chapu]], 1833–1891
*[[Gustave Crauck]], 1827–1905
*[[Antoine Étex]], 1808–1888
*[[Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume|Eugène Guillaume]], 1822–1905
*[[Henri Lehmann]], 1814–1882
*[[Eugène-Louis Lequesne]], 1815–1887
*[[Henri Le Secq]], 1818–1882
*[[Jacques-Léonard Maillet]], 1823–1894
*[[Pierre-Charles Simart]], 1806–1857
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