Jules Édouard Valtat

Jules Édouard Valtat, who was born August 7, 1838, in Troyes and died for his country during the Siege of Paris in January 1871, was a French sculptor.

He continued his training in the workshop of Francisque Duret at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.

He or his father had the idea of applying the molding process to achieve the production of religious statues [unclear].

He was appointed leader the group Faune et Bacchante (Wildlife and Bacchae) in 1859, to decorate the jardin d'acclimation in Paris whose architect Gabriel Davioud and landscape designer Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps were given charge of the development work by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation (Imperial Zoological Society of acclimatization) which was founded by Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1854.

[3] This collection also includes La Femme drapée, a stone statue of the second half of the sixteenth century, from the chapel of the convent of the Cordeliers of Troyes demolished in 1833 which lacks the head, feet and the right arm.