Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur (1759–1830), was a French sculptor.Le Sueur was born at Paris on 24 March 1759. A pupil of François-Joseph Duret, he was remarked in his early youth, and was only 21 years old when Girardin commissioned him to chisel the cenotaph of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, located on the ile des Peupliers at the Ermenonville park.Having carried off the Prix de Rome of sculpture, he went to that city in 1780; upon his return to France, Nicolas Beaujon asked him to execute a group of the three Graces.Afterwards he had work orders from the government; the most remarkable were one of the bas-reliefs which decorated the peristyle of the Pantheon; the peace of Pressburg for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel; one of the pediments of the inner court of the Louvre Palace; a statue of Montaigne, placed in the town of Libourne, and that of the bailli de Suffren given in that museum under the # 232.Le Sueur was nominated at the Institut de France in 1816, and the Legion of Honor was conferred upon him in 1828. He died in Paris on 4 December 1830."@en }
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- Jacques-Philippe_Le_Sueur abstract "Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur (1759–1830), was a French sculptor.Le Sueur was born at Paris on 24 March 1759. A pupil of François-Joseph Duret, he was remarked in his early youth, and was only 21 years old when Girardin commissioned him to chisel the cenotaph of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, located on the ile des Peupliers at the Ermenonville park.Having carried off the Prix de Rome of sculpture, he went to that city in 1780; upon his return to France, Nicolas Beaujon asked him to execute a group of the three Graces.Afterwards he had work orders from the government; the most remarkable were one of the bas-reliefs which decorated the peristyle of the Pantheon; the peace of Pressburg for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel; one of the pediments of the inner court of the Louvre Palace; a statue of Montaigne, placed in the town of Libourne, and that of the bailli de Suffren given in that museum under the # 232.Le Sueur was nominated at the Institut de France in 1816, and the Legion of Honor was conferred upon him in 1828. He died in Paris on 4 December 1830.".