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Genève
Genève (Canton)

Parc des Bastions

Augustin Pyrame de Candolle

Genève 1778 - Genève 1841
Swiss botanist
(Wikipedia)

James Pradier
1914 (1845)

Description

Bronze bust on a cilindrical column with bronze reliefs of the four seasons with their Greek names:

(click on the photo for an enlargement in a separate window.)

Between Spring and Summer is an eagle with a key - the symbol of Genève - and two putti botanising;
Between Autumn and Winter is an identical eagle with a statue of Athena, flanked by two putti, one of them holding a book, the other writing on the socle of the statue.

Inscription(s)

avgvstin pyramvs
de CANDOLLE

ne a geneve
le iv fevrier mdcclxxviii

execvte en 1913 par fumière et c^ie paris
d'apres le modele fondu a cire perdue
par eugene gonon en 1843

avgvstin pyramvs
de CANDOLLE

mort a geneve
le ix septembre mdcccxli

j. pradier, de geneve, scvlp.

Annotation

Replica of Pradier's bust of 1845, originally in the botanical garden, but later in the Musée d'Art et Histoire; Inaugurated 9 May 1914.

Sculptor

Jean-Jacques (James) Pradier (Genève 1790 - Rueil 1852), Swiss-French sculptor (SIKART Lexikon – Forum).

Sources & Information

Journal de Genève, 15 August 1845 and 10 May 1914 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).
Journal de Genève, 2 November 1928 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).
Douglas Siler, James Pradier, Correspondance, Tome III, 1843-1846 (Paris: Droz, 1988), pp. 202-203.

Locatie (N 46°11'59" - E 6°8'46") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: chge018; Photograph: 5 June 2013
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