A painter and sculptor, Charles Soulacroix entered the l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris on 22nd September 1845. Soulacroix studied with the Sculptors Augustus Alexandre Dumont (18011884), Professor at the l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1852, Etienne Jules Ramey (1796-1852) and with the German painter Peter Cornelius (1783-1867), Professor at the Academy in Munich who also worked in Paris.