Jean-Jules Allasseur
Jean-Jules Allasseur 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 where he kept his studio.
Selected works
- La Découverte de Moïse, shown in plaster at the Paris Salon of 1853 and in marble, 1859.
- François de Malherbe, one of the eighty-six standing figures of famous Frenchmen in Hector Lefuel's Cour Napoléon of the Louvre Palace.
- Monument of Jean Rotrou 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 for Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
- Rameau for the Académie nationale de musique. Shown at the Paris Salon of 1888.
- Le Pêcheur.
- Leucothea.