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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.

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