Pierre Cartellier

During the French Revolution, Cartellier was part of a team of sculptors who worked on the church of Saint Geneviève in Paris to convert it to the Panthéon.

After the Bourbon Restoration, he was given a commission to sculpt the bronze equestrian statue of King Louis XIV that can be seen in the cour d'honneur of Versailles.

Cartellier sculpted the model for the bronze statue of Dominique Vivant, baron Denon (1747–1825), that adorns his tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

However, Cartellier's best known work came in 1825 when he was commissioned by Vivant's close friends Eugène and Hortense de Beauharnais who wanted him to sculpt a monument for the tomb of their mother, the Empress Joséphine.

Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.