Pierre-Jules Cavelier

Pierre-Jules Cavelier (; 30 August 1814, in Paris – 28 January 1894, in 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 René Rozet, Édouard Lantéri, Hippolyte Lefèbvre, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Eugène Guillaume, Fernand Hamar, 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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