Jean-Jules Allasseur
Illustration — Leucothea (Cour Carrée of the Louvre) Jean-Jules Allasseur (13 June 1818 — 1903) was a French sculptor, a pupil of Pierre-Jean David called David d'Angers 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) where he kept his studio.
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Jean-Jules Allasseur
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- Born
- 1818 · former 4th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 1903 · 18th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Teachers
- David d'Angers
- Known for
- François de Malherbe
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Leucothea (Cour Carrée of the Louvre) Jean-Jules Allasseur (13 June 1818 — 1903) was a French sculptor, a pupil of Pierre-Jean David called David d'Angers 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) where he kept his studio.
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Jean-Jules Allasseur studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under David d'Angers is recorded. Robert David d'Angers is recorded as having studied under Jean-Jules Allasseur. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Works named in the authority record are François de Malherbe.
• 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. • 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. • 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. • Le Pêcheur (Louvre Museum). • Leucothea (Louvre Museum).
Statues of the City Hall in Paris, France
Jean-Jules Allasseur
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former 4th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.Dossier de la Légion d'honneur. cette date est confirmée par l'acte de naissance du sculpteur dans les registres de l'état-civil reconstitué de la ville de Paris.
- 2.en ligne Acte de décès 1356 (vue 9/31) du 24/03/1903 coté 18D 197 du arrondissement de Paris sur le site web des archives de Paris).
- 3.Il collabora en 1858 avec Armand Toussaint à la restauration de La Jeune grecque de David d'Anger, avant que ce dernier ne revienne de Grèce en 1866 ( Ekaterini Kepetzis, Bemerkungen zu David d’Angers als Republikaner und Philhellene, note 43 (en ligne)).
- 4.Cimetière de Montmartre.
- 5.André Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre, Paris, Roussard, 1999.
- 6.Émile Zola, Salon de 1866 (en ligne).
- 7.Fiche de La Découverte de Moïse. www.photo.rmn.fr.
- 8.Les 86 statues des hommes illustres, sur louvre-passion.over-blog.com.
- 9.plate F/21/*7658 .
- 10.Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais -. www.photo.rmn.fr.
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