Père-Lachaise Sculpture

division 10 - Guatemalan diplomat and writer. Named Guatemala’s ambassador to France in 1966 he was also a writer and winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature. Very unique Mayan totem.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin Méhul.

division 10 - Bust.

Sculptor: Jean-Jacques Elshoecht.

division 10 - French artist, diplomat and archeologist. Napoleon appointed him the first director of the Louvre Museum. Life-size statue (1826) of Denon seems to have caught him in mid-thought.

Sculptor: Pierre Cartellier (53).

Chemin Denon.

division 10 - French painter. Relief of a woman grieving beneath the profile of Dubufe on his deathbed.

Sculptor: Paul-Albert Bartholomé (4).

Chemin du Père Éternel.

division 10 - French ballet master. Bust (now missing) along with two small statues on either side of the stele: a winged seminude woman and winged male on the other.

Sculptor: Jean-Claude Petit.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 10 - Small relief of la Douleur above the entrance to a chapel tomb.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 10 - Relief of Christ at the end of a pyramid-shaped sarcophagus.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin du Pere Eternel.

division 10 - French merchant. Gareau’s was the first statue erected in Père-Lachaise and is one of the few of the earliest monuments still standing in the cemetery. La Douleur is quite possibly a representation of his widow.

Sculptor: François-Dominique Milhomme (1).

Located inside the division; the grave used to be just to the right of a path going up the hill but the path is now long gone.

division 10 - French statesman and diplomat. Medallion (1830).

Sculptor: Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (39).

Chemin Denon.

division 10 - Medallion portrait of a man and a woman.

Sculptor: Marc Chagall.

Chemin Denon.

division 10 - Medallion presumably of Ely. 

Sculptor: unknown.

division 10 - Relief of a woman’s left profile.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 10 - Sculptural hodgepodge consisting of what appears to be a painter’s palette, brush, and trowel exploding out of a pair of human upper legs boxed in so-to-speak by wooden slats.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin Denon.

division 10 - Italian ballet dancer and teacher. Statue of a dancer in motion.

Sculptor: Damien Hermelin. See Patrice Cottebrune in division 28, also done by Hermelin.

Avenue Latérale du Sud.

division 10 - Relief above the door to the chapel tomb. Also note the fine photo in stain glass.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 10 - French sculptor, poet and vaudevillist. Bust.

Sculptor: Joseph-Antoine Romagnesi. 

Located just off of Chemin Denon.

division 10 - Medallion of woman in left oblique profile.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 10 - Relief of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary over the door of the chapel.

Sculptor: Pierre-Alphonse Fessard.

division 10 - Relief of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary over the door of the chapel.

Sculptor: Pierre-Alphonse Fessard.

division 10 - Relief of a female stork with babies?

Sculptor: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 10 - French singer. Very distinctive bust at the base of a set of stairs disappearing between two broken columns.

Sculptor: Marais.

Chemin du Pere Eternel.

division 10 - French singer. Very distinctive bust at the base of a set of stairs disappearing between two broken columns.

Sculptor: Marais.

Chemin du Pere Eternel.