A Life Shaped by Stone and Canvas Before he ever held a brush to capture the drama of human emotion, Pierre-Jules Jollivet walked the path of an architect. In those early years in Paris, his hands were more accustomed to the structural logic of buildings than the fluid strokes of oil. Under the guidance of Jacques-Marie Huvé and Auguste Famin, he learned the discipline of form and weight. Yet, a change of heart arrived in 1822, pullin…