Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (9 January 1798, Valenciennes - 2 August 1880, Paris) was a French sculptor, working in a neoclassical academic style. Life and career 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. Selected works References Thieme-Becker, 1929, s.v. "Lemaire". External links 1798 births 1880 deaths People from Valenciennes Politicians from Hauts-de-France Bonapartists Members of the 1st Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 2nd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire French architectural sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Officiers of the Légion d'honneur