# PERRAUD, Jean-Joseph [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1819–1876 - Profession: sculptor - School: French ## Biography French academic sculptor who had a great reputation during the Second Empire, but his style fell out of fashion soon after his death. Perraud was student at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1843 under Étienne-Jules Ramey and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, co-winner of the Prix de Rome in 1847 with a plaster relief of Telemachus Carrying the Ashes of Hippias to Phalantes \(probably destroyed\). In his relief The Farewell \(plaster, 1848-49; Lons-le-Saunier, Musée des Beaux-Arts\), executed during his stay in Rome, Perraud simplified and refined a related motif with perfectionism. Although on his return to Paris he participated in the architectural decorations of the Second Empire \(1851-70\), contributing one of the façade groups, Lyric Drama \(Echaillon stone, 1865-9\), to the new Paris Opéra, his most concentrated effort was reserved for free-standing marble figures and groups. Examples are the Childhood of Bacchus \(1861-63; Musée du Louvre, Paris\) and the Despair \(Musée d'Orsay, Paris\). He was officer in the Legion of Honour in 1867, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. ## Related artworks - [Despair]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()