Pierre-Charles Bridan

A steel engraving by Augustus Charles Pugin of the plaster full-scale model created by Pierre-Charles Bridan, 1814

Pierre-Charles Bridan (1766–1836) was a French sculptor.

Pierre-Charles Bridan was a pupil of his father, the sculptor Charles-Antoine Bridan. He attended the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture where he won the Prix de Rome in 1791. Around 1812, he participated in the project to design of the Elephant of the Bastille. Bridan completed the plaster full-scale model of the elephant in 1814.

References

• Museum of painting and sculpture, or, Collection of the principal pictures, statues and bas-reliefs of public and private collections of Europe. Drawn and engraved etchings by Wake, with descriptive notes, critical and historical by Louis René Ménard page 39