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Adrien Étienne Gaudez

French sculptor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Adrien Étienne Gaudez was a French sculptor who worked in the 19th century. He produced several monumental figures that were cast in bronze. Gaudez studied sculpture under the tutelage of François Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts and in 1870 was a prisoner of war during the Franco-Prussian War.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adrien Étienne Gaudez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.