 Bartholdi attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a baccalauréat in 1852.He then went on to study architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the Musée de la Vie Romantique.Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him and his life.