Pierre Joseph Chardigny
{{Short description|French sculptor and medal designer}}
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| birth_date = 20 February 1794
| birth_place = Aix-en-Provence, France
| death_date = {{death-date and age|20 April 1866|20 February 1794}}
| death_place = Paris, France
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| parents = Barthélémy-François Chardigny
Marie Rose Demongé
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Pierre Joseph Chardigny (1794–1866) was a French sculptor and medal designer.
Early life
Pierre Joseph Chardigny was born in 1794 in Aix-en-Provence.{{cite book|last1=Parrocel|first1=Étienne|title=Annales de la peinture: discours et fragments|date=1867|publisher=En vent chez l'auteur|location=Marseille|pages=[https://archive.org/details/annalesdelapeint00parruoft/page/205 205]–215|oclc=222894854|url=https://archive.org/details/annalesdelapeint00parruoft|quote=Barthélémy-François Chardigny.}}{{cite book|last1=Rondot|first1=Natalis|title=Les médailleurs et les graveurs de monnaies, jetons et médailles en France|date=1904|publisher=E. Leroux|location=Paris|page=380|isbn=9788490012789|oclc=12647300|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3nWAwAAQBAJ&q=Pierre+Joseph+Chardigny&pg=PA380}} His father, Barthélémy-François Chardigny, was a sculptor. He learned sculpture from François Joseph Bosio.
Career
Chardigny designed many sculptures, some of which are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|title=Bust of the Marquis de Lafayette|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/4947|website=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=December 4, 2016}} the Princeton University Art Museum,{{cite web|title=Pierre Joseph Chardigny (French, 1794–1866)|url=http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/maker/6444|website=Princeton University Art Museum|accessdate=December 4, 2016}} the Château de Pau,{{cite web|title=Pierre Joseph Chardigny|url=http://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/pierre-joseph-chardigny_henri-iv-1553-1660-roi-de-france-en-buste_bronze_1851|website=Réunion des Musées Nationaux|accessdate=December 4, 2016}} and the Musée Baron-Martin.{{cite web|title=Les sculptures.|url=http://www.musee-baronmartin.fr/sculptures.html|website=Musée Baron-Martin|accessdate=December 4, 2016}}
File:Pierre joseph chardigny, alexandre-ange de tayllerand-perigord, arcivescovo di parigi, 1821.JPG, designed by Chardigny.]]
Chardigny suggested the design of a 100-foot statue in the shape of William Shakespeare in London, where visitors could go in, but it was turned down on the grounds that it would dehumanize him.{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Julia|title=Shakespeare's shrine : the Bard's birthplace and the invention of Stratford-upon-Avon|date=2012|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|isbn=9780812244236|oclc=768792996|page=32|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXtNnnKju38C&q=Pierre+Joseph+Chardigny&pg=PA32}}
Death
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Category:People from Aix-en-Provence
Category:French male sculptors
Category:19th-century French sculptors
Category:19th-century French male artists
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