Bernard Seurre

Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder (11 July 1795 – 3 October 1867) was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre (1798–1858) was also a sculptor.

Life
Born in Paris, Bernard Seurre was a student of the sculptor Pierre Cartellier. In 1818 Bernard Seurre won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief on the subject Chilonis imploring mercy for her husband Cleombrotus He then produced sculptures for the Arc de Triomphe between 1833 and 1836 and produced a design for a sculpture on top of it in 1833 (though this was never realized).

He died in Paris.

Arc de triomphe

 * The Battle of Aboukir, bas-relief, stone, east façade (champs-Élysées side), above The Apotheosis of Napoleon I and The Triumph of 1810 by Jean-Pierre Cortot
 * Entablature frieze, west façade (avenue de la Grande-Armée side), right half
 * Entablature frieze, south façade (avenue Kléber side), left half
 * Design for sculpture on top of the Arc de triomphe - allegory of France victorious (1833), drawing, Paris, musée d'Orsay

Other

 * Molière standing in meditation, over-life-size, bronze, Paris, Musée du Louvre
 * Molière, bronze, Paris, 1844, fontaine Molière, junction of rue de Richelieu and la rue Molière
 * Jean de La Fontaine, statue, marble, Paris, palais de l'Institut
 * Modesty, statue, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise, tomb of Pierre Cartellier, left side
 * Portrait of Nicolas Béhuchet, admiral of France, died 1340 (vers 1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon