Education
Rouillard attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Cortot.
Rouillard attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Cortot.
He was one of a "school of French animalières", which also included Pierre-Jules Mêne, Antoine-Louis Barye, Auguste Caïn and François Pompon. He worked mainly in cast iron rather than bronze. He was a professor of sculpture at the École des Arts décoratifs from 1840 to 1881.
François Pompon studied with him.
He was commissioned to travel to Istanbul, by Sultan Abdulaziz. He has many sculptures in different locations of Istanbul, including a bull sculpture at the center of Istanbul"s Kadikoy district.
He was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and made a Chevalier of the Légion d"honneur. He is buried at Issy.