{{Short description|French sculptor}} right|200px|thumb|Jean-Joseph Perraud [[Image:Lyrical drama Perraud.jpg|200px|thumb|''Lyrical Drama'', Palais Garnier, Paris]] '''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
<br /><gallery> File:Lalande cour Napoleon Louvre b.jpg|Lalan's statue on Louvre facade File:Pza Constitucion -Diego Portales por Jean-Joseph Perraud -fRF04 20171203.jpg|Statue of Diego Portales File:Jean-Joseph Perraud - Desespoir.jpg|Statue named "Desperation" </gallery>
== References == {{commons category|Jean-Joseph Perraud}} * Daniel Cady Eaton, ''A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture'', Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913
==External links== * {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}
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