Jean-Joseph Perraud was a French

France

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 academic sculptor. According to Eaton, "During the Second Empire

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 no sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation," although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death.

Perraud was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

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 from 1843 under Etienne-Jules Ramey

Etienne-Jules Ramey

Étienne-Jules Ramey called Ramey fils, was a French sculptor.Ramey was born in Paris, The pupil of his father, Claude Ramey , he trained in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, won the Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1815, with the subject, equally classicizing and sentimental, Ulysses recognized by his...

 and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont

Augustin-Alexandre Dumont

Augustin-Alexandre Dumont was a French sculptor.He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. In 1818, he started studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he was a pupil of Pierre...

, co-winner of the Prix de Rome

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 in 1847, officer in the Legion of Honor in 1867, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

Académie des beaux-arts

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Perraud is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery

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His work includes:

• Childhood of Bacchus from 1863 and now at the Louvre
• figure of Jérôme Lalande
  Jérôme Lalande
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  , facade of the Louvre
• Lyrical Drama figural group on the facade of the Palais Garnier
  Palais Garnier
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  , 1865-69
• figure of Berlin on the facade of the Gare du Nord
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• Despair, at the Musee d'Orsay
  Musée d'Orsay
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  , 1869
• statue of Saint Denis, at the Church of St Vaast, Arras, Pas-de-Calais