Jean Gautherin

His first major success came in 1876 with a marble sculpture of Saint Sebastien, which led to commissions from the City of Paris, and the cathedrals of Marseille and Nevers. He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1878. Gautherin died of a sudden illness in Paris at the age of 49, survived by his wife Anne-Marie (née Loué), whom he had married in 1883, and their three young children. Following his funeral at the Église Notre-Dame-des-Champs, he was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.

Jean Gautherin studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Charles Gumery and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont is recorded. Albert Fourié and Lucienne Signoret-Ledieu are recorded as having studied under Jean Gautherin. The recorded working language is French. Work by Jean Gautherin is recorded in the collections of Petit Palais and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Grave of Simon Marx (1865), Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris. • Saint Sébastien (1876), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. • Clotilde de Surville (1878), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. • Le Ville de Paris (1881), Hôtel de Ville, Paris. An allegorical figure of the City of Paris. • Le Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost) (1883), Mairie of the 5th arrondissement, Paris. This sculpture of Adam and Eve was originally situated in the Parc Monceau. A copy is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. • Diderot (1884), Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris. • Marguerite (c. 1886). A life-sized copy after Gautherin's statuette was modeled in 1911 for the Lanning Fountain at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. • Maria Fedorovna, Empress-Consort of Russia (1889). • Illustration — Grave of Simon Marx (1865), Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris. • Illustration — Saint Sébastien (1876), église Saint-Antoine, Compiègne. • Illustration — La Ville de Paris (The City of Paris) (1881), sculpture above the monumental clock of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris. • Illustration — Le Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost), 1883, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, • Illustration — Diderot (1884), Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris. • Illustration — Maria Fedorovna, Empress-Consort of Russia (1889), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.