Père-Lachaise Sculpture

division 25 - French general. Chapel flanked by two bronze cannons with a list of the battles in which d’Aboville participated; and a medallion of the general in the top center of the chapel.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 25 - French general. Chapel flanked by two bronze cannons with a list of the battles in which d’Aboville participated; and a medallion of the general in the top center of the chapel.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 25 - Three stunning intertwined immortelles, each representing a different plant, and all covered with straying grape vines.

Sculptor: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin

division 25 - Medallion placed near the top of a high pyramid.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 25 - Medallion located near the top of a tall obelisk.

Sculptor: Unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin

division 25 - French painter. Bust (1837).

Sculptor: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph De Bay.

divison 25 - French writer and humorist. Originally buried in the Cemetery of the Innocents, when that was closed his remains (more or less) were removed to the Musée des Monuments français and eventually settled in Père-Lachaise in 1817 along with Molière (they’re buried side-by-side); both graves are cenotaphs.

Two freize panels, one on either side of the base of the sarcophagus depicting characters from two of his most well-known stories: the Wolf and the Lamb, the Lamb and the Stork.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin Molière et la Fontaine.

division 25 - Reclining statue of a young woman – a reproduction of Ariane in the Vatican Museum.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin Molière.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 25 - Rose Legendre (1796-1820). Medallion of a young woman in left profile.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin Molière.

division 25 - Relief.

Sculptor: Jean-Louis-Augustin Lebègue.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 25 - French art critic. Bust, death mask (1896).

Sculptor: François Sicard.

Avenue Transversale No. 1.

division 25 - Relief on the upright stone and several reliefs on the small pedestal surmounted by a book at the front of the grave.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 25 - Medallion embedded in a large stone.

Sculptor: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 25 - chapel tomb in Egyptian revival style.

Artist: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin