FAMILEE ALLOUARD

MARIE MARADAN NEE CARSON 54 ANS

ANTOINE ALLOUARD 1815 – 30 DECEMBRE 1891

MARIE ALLOUARD NEE DAON 1843 – 1920

HENRI ALLOUARD 1844 – 1929

The best way to assure that you get what you want on your tombstone is, of course, to do it yourself, which is exactly what famed French sculptor Henri Emile Allouard did. He sculpted a magnificent bronze of a young girl dressed in a sleeping gown kneeling on a pillow as she prays. There is a wreath that drapes the end of the pillow. The bronze is atop of his family tomb in Le Père Lachaise at Paris, France.

Allouard was best known for sculptures that combined materials such as colored marble and bronze into one work of art. He was a prize-winning artist receiving a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle. His tomb sculpture demonstrates the maturity and skill of his talent.