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French academic sculptor
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Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Paris, Île-de-France, France
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79 years
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Pierre-Jules Cavelier (30 August 1814, Paris – 28 January 1894, 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 Édouard Lantéri, Hippolyte Lefèbvre, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Eugène Guillaume, 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
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