Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire

Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Pierre Cartellier is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Positions recorded include member of the French National Assembly. Works named in the authority record are Jean Froissart, Pierre Corneille and Archidamas. Work by Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire is recorded in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome.

He was a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, and won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1821. Lemaire sculpted the high relief of the Last Judgment for the pediment of the Église de la Madeleine, Paris. He is among the major academic sculptors of France who are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris: the others are Jean-Pierre Cortot, François Rude, Antoine Étex, and James Pradier. His bronze monument for the city of Quimper, commemorating the Breton Napoleonic hero and antiquarian, Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, was melted down during World War II.

• Illustration — Napoleon at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. • Illustration — Portrait bust of Claude Corbineau • Illustration — Detail of the pediment sculptures, Église de la Madeleine • Illustration — Pierre Corneille at the Louvre • Illustration — Jehan Froissart at the Louvre • Illustration — Les Funérailles du général Marceau, Arc de Triomphe • Illustration — Monument to Hoche, Versailles • Illustration — Jean-Baptiste Kléber at the Palace of Versailles. • Illustration — Archimadas se prépare à lancer le disque, Jardin du Luxembourg

Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire is recorded as having studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome.