Honoré Daumet

Honoré Daumet
Daumet around 1880
Born23 October 1826
Paris
Died12 December 1911(1911-12-12) (aged 85)
Paris
Resting placeMontparnasse Cemetery
NationalityFrench
Alma materBeaux-Arts de Paris
OccupationArchitect
AwardsPrix de Rome
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Pierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒeʁom ɔnɔʁe domɛ]; 23 October 1826 – 12 December 1911) was a French architect.

Biography

A student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris under Guillaume Abel Blouet, Charles-Félix Saint-Père and Émile Gilbert, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1855.[1] Daumet accompanied the Archeologist Léon Heuzey on an expedition to Macedonia in 1861. On his return he married the daughter of the architect Charles Questel.

Daumet founded his own atelier which would produce nine further Grand Prix winners, Charles-Louis Girault chief among them, and attracted a number of foreign students such as Charles McKim and Austin W. Lord.

In 1908, Daumet won the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He was a close friend of the sculptor Henri Chapu. Daumet died on 12 December 1911 at his home in the 6th arrondissement of Paris,[2] and was buried in the 15th division of Montparnasse Cemetery.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ Edouard-Joseph, René (1930). Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, 1910-1930 (in French). Vol. 1. Art & édition. p. 356.
  2. ^ "Archives de Paris 6e, acte de décès no 2401, année 1911 (page 22/31)". archives.paris.fr. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  3. ^ "Registre journalier d'inhumation de Paris Montparnasse de 1911 (page 19/31)". archives.paris.fr. Retrieved 2024-09-20.