As a child, he apprenticed with the chaser Bauchery, then with the goldsmith Fauconnier and the Fannières brothers.
In 1840, with the support of David d'Angers, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the Salon from 1857. He worked in Paris for the Church of Saint Augustin, the Tuileries, the Louvre, and the Opera. His works were made in terracotta, plaster, marble, and bronze, sometimes with additions of porcelain or ivory. (Pierre Kjellberg: Bronzes of the 19th Century)