title: Jean-Jules Allasseur
text: # Jean-Jules Allasseur
  
  Jean-Jules Allasseur (13 June 1818 — 1903) 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.
  
  He is buried at the cemetery of Montmartre (14th division) where he kept his studio.
  
  ## 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).
  