Isidore-Romain Boitel was a prominent French sculptor of the nineteenth century. Born in Paris in 1812, Boitel attended the Ecole des Beaux-arts, where he studied under the well-known sculptors James Jacques Pradier and David d’Angers. Boitel debuted at the official Salon in 1845 with a plaster statue titled Sainte Geneviève à l’âge de huit ans.
Boitel executed many portraits, statuettes, busts and medallions, as well as composed a series of subjects intended for commercial publication by the bronziers Vitoz and Victor Paillard.
He died in Paris on August 10, 1861.
