Jean-Jules Allasseur was a French sculptor, a pupil of Pierre-Jean David called David d'Angers at the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

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, Paris

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, 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

Montmartre

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 (14th division) where he kept his studio.

Selected works

• La Découverte de Moïsé, shown in plaster at the Paris Salon
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   of 1853 and in marble, 1859.
• François de Malherbe
  François de Malherbe
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  (1853), one of the eighty-six standing figures of famous Frenchmen in Hector Lefuel
  Hector Lefuel
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  's Cour Napoléon of the Palais du Louvre
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• Monument of Jean Rotrou
  Jean Rotrou
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   (bronze, 1866) for Dreux
  Dreux
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  , 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
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  , Paris.
• Saint Carlo Borromeo (1867) for Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
• Rameau (marble, 1888) for the Académie nationale de musique. Shown at the Paris Salon of 1888.
• Le Pecheur (Louvre Museum).
• Leucothea (Louvre Museum).