Pierre-Jules Cavelier (30 August 1814, in Paris – 28 January 1894, in Paris) was a French academic sculptor.

Biography

The son of a silversmith and furniture maker, Cavelier was born in Paris. He was a student of the sculptors

David d'Angers Pierre-Jean David (12 March 1788 – 4 January 1856) was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason.Initiated in ""Le Père de famille"" Lodge in Angers He adopted the name David d'Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter ...

and the painter

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (; Paris, 17 July 1797 – Paris, 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subje ...

, Cavelier won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in 1842 with a plaster statue of ''

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Entering the

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''. The young sculptor lived at the

Villa Medici The Villa Medici () is a sixteenth-century Italian Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with 7-hectare Italian garden, contiguous with the more extensive Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in the historic ...

from 1843–47. Appointed in 1864 Professor at the

École des beaux-arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

, he trained many students there, including

René Rozet Auguste René Rozet (1858–1939) was a French sculptor and medalist. He produced portrait medallions, portrait busts, tympanum, and statuettes. A common subject of his work was children. Biography He was born on 14 May 1858 in Paris. Rozet s ...

Édouard Lantéri Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848 – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture. His name is also frequently spelled ...

, Hippolyte Lefèbvre, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Eugène Guillaume, Fernand Hamar, the British

Alfred Gilbert Sir Alfred Gilbert (12 August 18544 November 1934) was an English sculpture, sculptor. He was born in London and studied sculpture under Joseph Boehm, Matthew Noble, Édouard Lantéri and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. His first work of importance wa ...

and the American

George Grey Barnard George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized ''Struggle of the Two Natures in Man'' at the Metropolitan Museum ...

, as well as conducting his own prolific career as a sculptor.

Notable works

* Two caryatids, sketch group, terracotta, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1854 * ''Paris'' on the exterior of the

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, Paris * ''Cornélie, Mother of Gracchi'' group, marble, Paris, Orsay Museum, 1861 * Angel on the bell tower,

Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois The Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois () is a medieval Roman Catholic church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, directly across from the Louvre Palace. It was named for Saint Germanus of Auxerre, a medieval bishop of Auxerre, who became a papal ...

, Paris

Gallery

File:Statue-Orsay-09.jpg, Cornelia, mother of the

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, Musée de Orsay File:Paris - Palais du Louvre - PA00085992 - Abailard.jpg, Pierre Abelard at the Louvre File:Fontaine du Palais Longchamp 2.jpg, Endurance,

Palais Longchamp The Palais Longchamp () is a monument in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It houses both the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Musée des beaux-arts and the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille. The surrounding Longchamp Park (F ...

File:Right angel bell-tower Saint Germain l'Auxerrois.jpg, Angel on the bell tower,

References

* Simone Hoog, ''Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I. Le Musée'', Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993 * Emmanuel Schwartz, ''Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue'', École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003 * J. Le Fustec, "La statue de Montyon", ''Le Magasin pittoresque'', 1894, p. 65-67

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cavelier, Pierre-Jules 1814 births 1894 deaths French architectural sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts Sculptors from Paris Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists