page_title: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
section_title: Other major works
hierarchical_section_title: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi / Major projects / Other major works
caption_attribution_description: English: The Bartholdi Fountain, sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, located at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington
context_page_description: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is universally best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.
context_section_description: 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
  1870: LeVigneron
  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 (or Lafayette Arriving in America), executed 1872, cast 1873 in 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 Prussian assault at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. A plaster was exhibited in 1878. Bartholdi was an officer himself during this period, attached to Garibaldi.
  1889: 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, 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.
  1895: Lafayette and Washington Monument," in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, and an exact replica at Morningside Park, New York City, United States.
  1903: Vercingetorix, equestrian statue in Place de Jaude, Clermont-Ferrand.
caption: Bartholdi Fountain in Washington, D.C.
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