Editing Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (section)

==Major projects==
===The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World'')===
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[[File:Leslie Liberty.jpg|thumb|Front page of [[Frank Leslie]]'s 13 June 1885 edition of ''Illustrated Newspaper'']]
The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is ''Liberty Enlightening the World'', better known as the [[Statue of Liberty]]. Soon after the establishment of the [[French Third Republic]], the project of building some suitable memorial to show the fraternal feeling existing between the republics of the United States and France was suggested, and in 1874 the Union Franco-Américaine (Franco-American Union) was established by [[Edouard de Laboulaye]].<ref name="Apletons_1900"/>

Bartholdi's hometown in [[Alsace]] had just passed into German control in the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. These troubles in his ancestral home of Alsace are purported to have further influenced Bartholdi's own great interest in independence, liberty, and [[self-determination]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Bartholdi subsequently joined the Union Franco-Américaine, among whose members were Laboulaye, [[Paul de Rémusat]], [[William Waddington]], [[Henri Martin (historian)|Henri Martin]], [[Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps]], [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau]], Oscar Gilbert Lafayette,<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> François Charles Lorraine, and Louis François Lorraine.{{clarify|date=August 2016}}
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Bartholdi broached the idea of a massive statue, and once its design was approved, the Union Franco-Américaine raised more than 1 million francs throughout France for its building.<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> In 1879, Bartholdi was awarded [[design patent]] {{US patent|D11,023}} for the Statue of Liberty.{{clarify|date=August 2016}} On 4 July 1880, the statue was formally delivered to the American minister in Paris, the event being celebrated by a great banquet.<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> In {{format date|1886|10}}, the structure was officially presented as the joint gift of the French and American people, and installed on [[Bedloe's Island]] in [[New York Harbor]].<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> Originally, it arrived with chains presented in the left hand leading down to the feet, which was to represent the liberty of the United States from slavery. It was also originally the colour of copper to represent as such. The United States made a deal with Bartholdi that if the chains were to be removed from the upper part of the body, they could stay at the feet, but they, too, must be hidden. It was also rumoured in France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi's mother.<ref name="NPS_StatueLiberty_questions">[http://www.nps.gov/stli/planyourvisit/get-the-facts.htm "Frequently Asked Questions About the Statue of Liberty"] on the [[United States National Park Service]]'s Statue of Liberty website</ref> The statue is {{convert|46|m}},<ref>{{cite web |last1=Scoboria |first1=Evan |title=Guide to the Statue of Liberty's Dimensions (Height, Weight, and More) |url=https://www.skny.io/statue-of-liberty/how-tall-is-the-statue-of-liberty |website=SKNY |date=6 May 2023 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref> and the top of the torch is at an elevation of {{convert|93|m}} from mean low-water mark.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/stli/faqs.htm "Statue of Liberty: Frequently Asked Questions"], [[National Park Service]] website</ref> It was the largest work of its kind that had been completed up to that time.<ref name="Apletons_1900"/>

===Works in Colmar===
[[File:Bartoldi-Museum.JPG|thumb|237px|[[Musée Bartholdi]] in Colmar]] 
Bartholdi's hometown [[Colmar]] (modern political administrative region of [[Grand Est]]) has a number of statues and monuments by the sculptor, as well as a museum founded in 1922 in the house in which he was born, at 30 Rue des Marchands.

* ''Monument du Général Rapp'' – 1856 (first shown 1855 in Paris. Bartholdi's earliest major work)
* "Fontaine Schongauer" – 1863 (in front of the [[Unterlinden Museum]])
* "Fontaine de l'Amiral Bruat" – 1864
* "Fontaine Roeselmann" – 1888
* "Monument Hirn" – 1894
* "Fontaine Schwendi", depicting [[Lazarus von Schwendi]] – 1898
* ''Les grands soutiens du monde'' − 1902 (statue in the courtyard of the museum)

===Other major works===
[[File:Bartholdi Fountain - Washington, D.C. crop.jpg|thumb|237px|Bartholdi Fountain in Washington, D.C.]]
Bartholdi's other major works include a variety of statues at [[Clermont-Ferrand]]; in Paris, and in other places. Notable works include:

* 1852: ''Francesca da Rimini''<ref name="Apletons_1900"/>
* 1870: ''Le Vigneron''<ref name="Apletons_1900"/>
* 1876 (plaster version in 1874) : Frieze and four angelic trumpeters on the tower of [[Brattle Square Church]], [[Boston]], Massachusetts, United States.
* 1876: ''[[Marquis de Lafayette (Bartholdi)|Marquis de Lafayette]]'' (or ''Lafayette Arriving in America''),<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> executed 1872, cast 1873<ref name="UnionPark_Highlights">[http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/unionsquarepark/highlights/13320 "Union Square Highlights"] on the [[New York City Parks Department]] website</ref> in [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], New York City, United States.
* 1878: The [[Bartholdi Fountain]] in Bartholdi Park, the [[United States Botanic Garden]], Washington, D.C., United States.
* 1880: ''[[The Lion of Belfort]]'', in [[Belfort]], France, a massive sculpture of a [[lion]] depicting the huge struggle of the French to hold off the [[Prussia]]n assault at the end of the [[Franco-Prussian War]].<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> A plaster was exhibited in 1878.<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> Bartholdi was an officer himself during this period, attached to [[Garibaldi]].
* 1889: ''[[Strassburger memorial|Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg]]'' at [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]], which was a gift from the French city of [[Strasbourg]], in appreciation of the humanitarian help it had received during the Franco-Prussian War.
* 1890: Statue of Liberty in [[Potosí]], Bolivia.
* 1892: [[Fontaine Bartholdi]], on the [[Place des Terreaux]], in [[Lyon]], France.
* 1893: [[Statue of Christopher Columbus (Providence, Rhode Island)|Statue of Christopher Columbus]], cast in silver for the 1892 [[Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, Illinois; a bronze replica was erected in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] in 1893 and was taken down in June 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Amaral |first1=Brian |title=Providence removes statue of Christopher Columbus, its fate unclear |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200625/providence-removes-statue-of-christopher-columbus-its-fate-unclear |access-date=29 June 2020 |publisher=The Providence Journal |date=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dedication of the Bartholdi statue of Columbus |url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:318514/ |website=Brown University Library |publisher=Brown University |access-date=29 June 2020}}</ref>
* 1895: Lafayette and Washington Monument," in the [[Place des États-Unis]], Paris, and an exact replica at [[Morningside Park (New York City)|Morningside Park]], New York City, United States.
* 1903: ''[[Vercingetorix]]'',<ref name="Apletons_1900"/> equestrian statue in [[Place de Jaude]], Clermont-Ferrand.

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File:Lafayette statue Union Square closeup.jpg|''[[Marquis de Lafayette (Bartholdi)|''Marquis de Lafayette'']]'', statue of [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]] in [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]
File:Lion de Belfort.jpg|Bartholdi's ''[[Lion of Belfort]]''
File:Statue-vercingetorix-jaude-clermont.jpg|''Vercingetorix'', Place de Jaude, Clermont-Ferrand.
File:Christopher Columbus Statue.jpg|Columbus statue, [[Providence, Rhode Island]], erected 1892, removed 2020
File:Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg in Basel.jpg|''Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg'' in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]] 
Bartholdi - La Californie de jadis.jpg|''Ancient California'', painting in the [[Musée Bartholdi]], Colmar. Height {{Convert|150|cm|abbr=on}}, width {{Convert|200|cm|abbr=on}}. Between 1871 and 1876.
Bartholdi - La Californie nouvelle.jpg|''The New California'', [[pendant (art)|pendant]] of the preceding work. Same dimensions and inception.
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