Jean Cardot

Jean Cardot (Screen capture from a video from the Encyclopédie audiovisuelle de l'art contemporain).

Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 - ) is a French sculptor, born in Saint-Etienne, France.

He was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997. He is best known for his statues in Paris of Sir Winston Churchill 1998 on the Right Bank of the Seine in front of the Petit Palais and on Avenue Winston Churchill ; of General Charles de Gaulle 2000 on the Champs-Elysées in front of the Grand Palais; and of Thomas Jefferson 2006 on the Left Bank of the Seine, facing the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de la Légion d'Honneur, by the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly Pont de Solférino.

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 54145383 ISNI: 0000 0001 1472 7938 SUDOC: 026766809 BNF: cb11895153m (data) ULAN: 500041347 RKD: 219854

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