Jean-Joseph Perraud

Jean-Joseph Perraud (26 April 1819, Jura - 2 November 1876) was a French academic sculptor. According to Eaton, "During the Second Empire no sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation", although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death.

Biography Perraud was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1843 under Etienne-Jules Ramey and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, co-winner of the Prix de Rome in 1847, officer in the Legion of Honor in 1867, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Perraud died in Paris. He is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.

Major works Télémaque apportant à Phalante l'urne renfermant les cendres d'Hippias (based on Fénelon's The Adventures of Telemachus) Childhood of Bacchus from 1863 and now at the Louvre figure of Jérôme Lalande, facade of the Louvre Lyrical Drama figural group on the facade of the Palais Garnier, 1865–69 figure of Berlin on the facade of the Gare du Nord Despair, at the Musée d'Orsay, 1869 statue of Saint Denis, at the Church of St Vaast, Arras, Pas-de-Calais