French sculptor, born at Geneva. He was a member of the French Academy, and a popular sculptor of the pre-Romantic period, representing in France the drawing-room classicism which Canova illustrated at Rome. His chief works are the Niobe group (1822), “Atalanta” (1850), “Psyche” (1824), “Sappho” (1852) (all in the Louvre), “Prometheus” (Tuileries Gardens), a bas-relief on the triumphal arch of the Carrousel, the figures of “Fame” on the Arc de l’Étoile, and a statue of J. J. Rousseau for Geneva. Besides these mention should be made of his “Three Graces” (1821).
