Jean-Jules Allasseur
French sculptor
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Jean-Jules Allasseur (13 June[1] 1818 — 1903) was a French sculptor, a pupil of Pierre-Jean David called David d'Angers[2] at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, who produced portrait sculptures, memorial allegories and decorative architectural sculpture for official commissions under the Second Empire. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 7 August 1867.
He is buried at the cemetery of Montmartre (14th division)[3] where he kept his studio.[4]
Selected works
- La Découverte de Moïse, shown in plaster at the Paris Salon of 1853 and in marble, 1859.
- François de Malherbe (1853), one of the eighty-six standing figures of famous Frenchmen in Hector Lefuel's Cour Napoléon of the Louvre Palace.[5]
- Monument of Jean Rotrou (bronze, 1866) for Dreux, adapting and simplifying the features of the famous bust by Caffieri for the foyer of the Comédie-Française.[6]
- Saint Joseph for Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris.
- Saint Carlo Borromeo (1867) for Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
- Rameau (marble, 1888) for the Académie nationale de musique. Shown at the Paris Salon of 1888.[7]
- Le Pêcheur (Louvre Museum).
- Leucothea (Louvre Museum).