Juliette Dubufe (''née'' Zimmerman) (1819 – 6 August 1855) was a French sculptor. Wife of the painter

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, Juliette was the elder sister of Anna, wife of composer

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. They were the daughters of composer and piano instructor

Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman (19 March 178529 October 1853), known as Pierre Zimmermann and Joseph Zimmermann, was a French pianist, composer, and music teacher. Biography Zimmerman was born in Paris on March 19, 1785, as the son of a pian ...

. The Dubufes were the parents of painter Guillaume Dubufe. A pianist as well as a sculptor, Juliette exhibited a bust of

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at the

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of 1844. She died in childbirth at Auteuil. A medal by Dubufe, ''Paul Hugues Christofle'' of 1846, is owned by the

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