François Jouffroy
François Jouffroy ( born February 1, 1806 Dijon, † June 25, 1882 in Laval ( Mayenne ) ) was a French sculptor, carver and restorer.
François Jouffroy in Paris was a pupil of Claude Ramey, 1832 received the Prix de Rome in 1835, and sent from Rome sculpture of a Neapolitan shepherds on a grave in Paris. Of his later works should be mentioned:
- The curse of Cain (1838 )
- Statuette Lamartine,
- A young girl, which of Venus her first mystery entrusted (1839, in Luxembourg),
- Disappointment (1840 )
- Spring and Fall (1845 )
- The Dreaming (1848 )
- The Loneliness ( 1853),
- Stoup in the parish church of Saint -Germain l'Auxerrois
- Christ and the Apostles on the facade of St. -Augustin,
- Statues of punishment and protection at the Palace of Justice and
- The lyric poetry of the New Opera in Paris (1867 ).
He was a professor at the École des Beaux -Arts, and died June 26, 1882 in Laval, Mayenne.