Pierre-Jules Cavelier

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 and the painter Paul Delaroche, Cavelier won the Prix de Rome in 1842 with a plaster statue of Diomedes Entering the Palladium. The young sculptor lived at the Villa Medici from 1843–47.

Appointed in 1864 Professor at the École des beaux-arts, he trained many students there, including René Rozet,^[1] Édouard Lantéri, Hippolyte Lefèbvre, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Eugène Guillaume, Fernand Hamar, the British Alfred Gilbert and the American George Grey Barnard, 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 Gare du Nord, Paris
Cornélie, Mother of Gracchi group, marble, Paris, Orsay Museum, 1861
Angel on the bell tower, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris

Gallery

Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Musée de Orsay
Pierre Abelard at the Louvre
Endurance, Palais Longchamp
Angel on the bell tower, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois

References

^ Medals, British Museum Dept of Coins and; Attwood, Philip (1991). Acquisitions of Medals (1983-1987). British Museum. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-86159-078-0.

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

Media related to Jules Cavelier at Wikimedia Commons

[:1-1] Medals, British Museum Dept of Coins and; Attwood, Philip (1991). Acquisitions of Medals (1983-1987). British Museum. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-86159-078-0.

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