Jean-Jules Allasseur

Jean-Jules Allasseur (13 June [According to the "Dossiers de proposition de Légion d'Honneur, 1852-1870" (Paris) 2005 ( [http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/fonds/edi/sm/sm_pdf/F70%20115-119.pdf pdf file] ); The date 1 July is usually given in secondary sources.] 1818 — 1903) was a French sculptor, a pupil of Pierre-Jean David called David d'Angers [In 1858 he collaborated with Armand Toussaint in restoring David d'Anger's sculpture "La Jeune Grecque", prior to its being returned to Greece in 1866 (Ekaterini Kepetzis, "Bemerkungen zu David d’Angers als Republikaner und Philhellene" note 43 ( [http://www.europa-zentrum-wuerzburg.de/unterseiten/kepetzis.htm on-line text] )] 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) [ [http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=339 Cimitière Montmartre] ] where he kept his studio. ["Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre" (Paris: Roussard) 1999).]

elected works

*"La Découverte de Moïsé", 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 Palais du Louvre. [ [http://louvre-passion.over-blog.com/archive-07-28-2006.html "Les 86 statues des hommes illustres"] ]
*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. [Noted with approval by Émile Zola in his review of the Salon ( [http://www.fak09.uni-muenchen.de/Kunstgeschichte/projekte/zola/about.html on-line text] ).]
*"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. [plate F/21/*7658] ]
*"Le Pecheur" (Louvre Museum).
*"Leucothea" (Louvre Museum).

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