There's so much French culture to discover in the incredible 107 acres of Père-Lachaise Cemetery: sculpture, history, and of course the graves of some of the greatest cultural and artistic icons of the 19th and 20th centuries. So, if you're interested in 19th century French art and literary history two small divisions in particular should be at the top of your list.
Located near the top of the hill overlooking the city of Paris and just to the south and east of the chapel, bounded by the Avenue Saint-Morys, Avenue Transversale No. 1, C
hemin Adanson, Chemin Laplace and Chemin de la Citerne, divisions 23 and 24 are the final resting places of no less than six of the greatest 19th century French artists and one pioneer of French education.
We begin with two painters buried side-by-side,
Camille Corot and
Charles Daubigny:
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875). French painter.
Chemin Laplace, line 6, next to Charles Daubigny.
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| Bust of Jean by Michel Béguine |
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| Ville d'Avray, 1865, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Woman with a pearl, 1868-70, Louvre, Paris |
Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878). French painter.
Chemin Laplace, line 5, next to Jean Corot.
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| Bust (1879) of Charles by Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume |
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| The Ponds of Gylieu, 1853, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA |
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| Boats on the seacoast at Étaples, 1871, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, USA |
Jacques “James” Pradier (1794–1852). French sculptor.
Chemin Molière et La Fontaine, junctions of
Chemin de la Citerne, and
Chemin du Dragon.
Note that on the monument itself are a bust of Pradier by former student Eugene-Louis Lequesne and reliefs of several of Pradier’s most notable works, also by former students:
Phryne, by Antoine Étex;
Psyche, by Claude-Eugène Guillaume;
Niobide, by Jacques-Léonard Maillet;
Sappho, by Pierre-Charles Simart.
Other reliefs of Pradier’s works located on the monument are:
Cyparisse and his stag, by Hippolyte Ferrat;
Nyssia, by Augustin Courtet;
La Poésie légère, by François-Félix Roubaud;
Pelion or
Phydias, by François-Clément Moreau.
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| Odalisque, 1841, Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France |
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| Louise Colet, 1837, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, USA |
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879). French caricaturist, painter, sculptor, and one of the most gifted and prolific draftsmen of his time.
Chemin Laplace, line 2, a few steps from Corot and Daubigny.
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| Second class carriage, Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA |
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| Legislative belly, 1834, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, USA |
Just a few steps away across
Chemin Adanson in D23 are:
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867). French painter. Second row in from Avenue Saint-Morys and close to
Chemin Adanson.
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| Bust (1868) by Jean Bonnassieux; architect: Victor Baltard. |
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| Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, 1806, Louvre, Paris |
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| La baigneuse Valpinçon, 1808, Louvre, Paris |
Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850–1924). French painter.
Chemin Adanson.
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| Bust (1910) of Jean by Teresa Feoderovna Ries. |
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| Boulevard Saint-Michel, 1890, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| The Boulevard, Corcoran Galley, Washington, DC |
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| Raffaëlli in his studio |
Finally, there is Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin comtesse de Genlis (1746-1831), French writer and pioneer in education. Chemin Laplace, line 8.
Originally buried in Mont-Valerien Cemetery, her remains were transferred to Père-Lachaise in 1842.
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| Portrait medallion (1843) of Stéphanie by Edme-Jean-Louis Sornet. |
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| portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard |
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