Amédée Ménard

[1] He studied art with local sculptors and joined a workshop specializing in statuary.

[1] He spent most of the following decade in Paris, where he showed regularly at the Salon, before returning to settle permanently in Nantes.

[1] Ménard sculpted large statues of historical and mythological characters as well as some bas reliefs and architectural elements such as pediments.

Among his students in Nantes were the sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg[2] and the painter Auguste Toulmouche.

[3] The Nantes statuary will also be requested by Joseph Bigot, architect from Quimper, to sculpt, on the pediment of the facade of the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts, an allegory of painting and architecture surrounding the arms of the City, and, always at the request of the latter, will realize, for the cathedral Saint-Corentin, the recumbent figure of Monsignor Graveran (1855) or also for the equestrian granite statue of King Gradlon, executed by the sculptor Le Brun de Lorient, and inaugurated on October 10, 1858, the plaster model kept at the Museum des Beaux-Arts in Quimper.

King Gradlon by Amédée-René Ménard, a plaster model (ca. 1850) for his later sculpture in granite of the same title.
King Gradlon by Amédée-René Ménard and the sculptor Le Brun de Lorient, 1858, granite statue at the cathedral of Saint-Corentin at Quimper , France.