File:ParisGlorieDeLaRepubliqueFrancaise.jpg

Paris, statue of the Republic, c. 1890.

Scanned from A Photographic Trip Around the World, John W. Illiff & Co., Chicago, 1892. Copyright expired.

Original caption:

STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC, PARIS, FRANCE. -- This national statue is made of bronze, and was erected in 1883. The stone pedestal, fifty feet in height, is surrounded with seated bronze figures of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The statue, thirty-two feet high to the top of the olive branch, makes a striking and imposing appearance. In front is a brazen lion, with the urn of universal suffrage. On the stone pedestal are hewn the words, "To the Glory of the Republic of France, to the City of Paris, 1883." This statue was the model for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

Notes:

Leopold Morice is the author of the Statue of the Republic, Place de la République in Paris (see here or there). The original caption is mistaken in some details; this statue was not the model for Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty; the two have little in common other than a similar classical pose. Besides, Bartholdi has created the first terracotta model of his statue in 1870^[1], we can see it in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in France.

Reference :

1. ↑ R.Belot, D.Bermond, Bartholdi, Paris, Perrin, 2004, p.237

Camera location	48° 52′ 02.4″ N, 2° 21′ 46.9″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	48.867333; 2.363028

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