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French sculptor
Jean-Joseph Perraud
Lyrical Drama ,
Palais Garnier , Paris
Jean-Joseph Perraud (26 April 1819,
Jura - 2 November 1876) was a French academic sculptor. According to Eaton, "During the
Second Empire no sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation", although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death.
Biography
Perraud was a student at the
École des Beaux-Arts from 1843 under
Etienne-Jules Ramey and
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont , co-winner of the
Prix de Rome in 1847, officer in the
Legion of Honor in 1867, and member of the
Académie des Beaux-Arts .
Perraud died in Paris. He is buried in
Montparnasse Cemetery .
Major works
Télémaque apportant à Phalante l'urne renfermant les cendres d'Hippias (based on Fénelon's The Adventures of Telemachus )
Childhood of Bacchus from 1863 and now at the Louvre
figure of
Jérôme Lalande , facade of the Louvre
Lyrical Drama figural group on the facade of the
Palais Garnier , 1865–69
figure of Berlin on the facade of the
Gare du Nord
Despair , at the
Musée d'Orsay , 1869
statue of Saint Denis, at the Church of St Vaast, Arras,
Pas-de-Calais
References
Daniel Cady Eaton, A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture , Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913
External links
International National Artists People