Père-Lachaise Sculpture

division 8 - Pierre-Auguste Béclard (1785-1825) and his son Jules-Auguste Béclard (1817-1887). French physicians, Pierre was also professor of anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and chief surgeon at the hôpital de la Pitié.

Sculptors: Théophile-Marcel Bra (Pierre’s bust) and Gustave Crauk (Jules’s bust).

Avenue Casimir Perier.

division 8 - French surgeon. Medallion (1849) over the entrance to his tomb.

Sculptor: Jean-Jacques Elshoecht.

division 8 - French architect and illustrator. Medallion (1867).

Sculptor: Pierre-Jules Cavelier.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin,

division 8 - French sculptor of medallions for Titeux de Fresnois (39), A. L. M. Cavelier (8), and Edmund Moore (65). Bust.

Sculptor: Léon Fagel.

division 8 - French chemist and professor of physics and chemistry. Medallion.

Sculptor: David d’Angers (39).

division 8 - French poet. Life-size effigy.

Sculptor: unknown.

Chemin du Coq.

division 8 - Wife of Louis. Bust of  young woman.

Sculptor: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 8 - Bust.

Sculptor: Léopold Morice.

division 8 - French writer and politician. Medallion.

Sculptor: Antonin Mercié.

division 8 - Bust.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 8 - Medallion.

Sculptor: unknown.

division 8 - Medallion.

Sculptor: Charles Marochetti.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.

division 8 - Relief of la Douleur upright and a spectacular Christian cross set in mosaic tiles over the slab tomb.

Sculptor and mosaicist: unknown.

division 8 - Relief of la Douleur upright and a spectacular Christian cross set in mosaic tiles over the slab tomb.

Sculptor and mosaicist: unknown.

division 8 - Medallion.

Sculptor: unknown.

divison 8 - American pianist. What music is Christina still playing?

Sculptor: unknown.

division 8 - French lawyer and Minister of Finance. Medallion,

Sculpturs: Henri Chapu with ornamental decoration by J. Heritier.

division 8 - Belgian stage magician and early exploiter of the phantasmagoria. A professor of physics in his native Liège he was better known by his stage name Étienne Robertson. In 1784, he gave an exhibition of an improved magic lantern, the phantasmagoria. He was also a serious balloonist. Sarcophagus tomb above a base with two frieze panels, which are the most engaging elements of this tomb: on one side is the Last Judgment while the other depicts what is believed to be the first balloon flight. It is thought that the figure to the far left is American Benjamin Franklin who did indeed watch the first balloon launch from the Tuilleries Gardens on 1 December 1783.

Sculptor: unknown but possibly M. Hardouin.

Avenue Casimir Perier.

division 8 - The two frieze panels are the most engaging elements of this tomb: this one is the Last Judgment.

Sculptor: unknown but possibly M. Hardouin.

Avenue Casimir Perier.

division 8 - The two frieze panels are the most engaging elements of this tomb: this one depicts what is believed to be the first balloon flight. It is thought that the figure to the far left is American Benjamin Franklin who did indeed watch the first balloon launch from the Tuilleries Gardens on 1 December 1783.

Sculptor: unknown but possibly M. Hardouin.

Avenue Casimir Perier.

division 8 - Bust.

Sculptor: Léonidas Drossis.

Avenue Casimir Perier.

division 8 - Bust inside the chapel.

Sculptor: unknown.

Photo by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin.