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,^[1] 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

Gallery

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  Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Musée de Orsay
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  Pierre Abelard at the Louvre
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  Endurance, Palais Longchamp
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  Angel on the bell tower, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois