FOUR SILVER MEDALS AWARDED TO CHARLES BULLET, 1842-70

- École Royale des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 1er prix Sculpture, 1842
- Ohio State Board of Agriculture...for Sculpture, 1851
- United States Agricultural Society...for a Marble Bust, Cincinnati 1860
- Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1870...for marble bust & medallion

According to Jeffrey Weidman, Artists in Ohio, Charles Bullet (he gives middle names Ferréal Auguste) was born in Laval, France in 1820 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts before emigrating to New York by way of Italy.  He was in Montreal in 1849, then Cincinnati in 1850, where he worked at local marble yards.  Between 1853 and 1857 he won major awards at the Ohio State Fair.  In the early 1860s a weakness of the arm sent him to Paris to study painting, and on his return in 1864 he worked in New Orleans, again at sculpture.  By 1870 he was in Louisville, in partnership with Michael Muldoon; Bullet had a studio in Carrara, Italy, where he fashioned marbles that were sent to Muldoon in Louisville, then distributed to cemeteries throughout the South and Midwest.  He died in Carrara in 1873.