Jean-Joseph Perraud

Jean-Joseph Perraud studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Pierre Granet, Amand Pierre Harel and Louis-Charles Beylard are recorded as having studied under Jean-Joseph Perraud. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are François Mansart, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande and Day. Work by Jean-Joseph Perraud is recorded in the collections of Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, Centre national des arts plastiques and Musée d'Orsay. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

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.

• 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 • Illustration — Lalan's statue on Louvre facade • Illustration — Statue of Diego Portales • Illustration — Statue named "Desperation"