Louis-Philippe Hébert
Louis-Philippe Hébert | |
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 Louis-Philippe Hébert | |
| Born | 27 Jan 1850 Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec |
| Died | 13 June 1917 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Napoléon Bourassa |
| Known for | sculptor, educator |
Louis-Philippe Hébert CMG (1850–1917) was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec. Hébert was a sculptor who sculpted forty monuments, busts, medals and statues in wood, bronze and terra-cotta. He taught at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montreal, Quebec. He married Maria Roy on 26 May 1879 in Montreal, Quebec. The couple's eight children include , a sculptor, and , a painter.
Hébert was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1880).[1] He was awarded the Medal of Confederation (1894). He was made a chevalier of France's Legion of Honour (1901). He was a Companion of St Michael and St George (Great Britain, 1903). The Prix Philippe-Hébert, named in his honour, has been given to an artist of outstanding ability and stature in Québec arts by the St-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montréal since 1971. He was buried in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.
Works[]
Parliament Hill, Ottawa[]
Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1880s) at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario
Sir John A. Macdonald (1880s)
Queen Victoria (1900), dedicated by Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York in 1901.
Alexander Mackenzie (1901).
Nova Scotia[]
Evangeline (unveiled 1920), Grand Pre, Nova Scotia
Joseph Howe (1904), Province House, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Libel trial of Joseph Howe, Supreme Court (current Legislative Library), Province House (Nova Scotia)
Quebec Parliament Building[]
« La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family sculpture facade of the Quebec Parliament Building, Québec City.
« La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family
Charles-Michel de Salaberry
James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm
Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis sculpture
Montreal, Quebec[]
Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square, Montreal, Quebec
Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square
Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget Monument (1903) is in front of Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
Louis-Philippe Hébert's John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal.
John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal
Maisonneuve Monument[]
Maisonneuve Monument (1895) was erected in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in the Place d'Armes square Montreal, Quebec.
Mascaron.
Acte de foundation de Ville-Marie.
Mort heroique de Dollard au Long Sault.
Premiere messe a Ville-Marie.
Other[]
Bishop Joseph Eugene Guiges outside Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa
Octave Crémazie Monument near the house of Émile Nelligan
Madeleine de Verchères (1927) was erected in Verchères, Quebec
Boer War monument in Central Memorial Park. Calgary, Alberta
- Monseigneur Bourget in Montreal, Quebec.
- Monseigneur de Laval in Quebec, Quebec.
- completed thirty large wooden sculptures in the choir of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa including the Holy Family, John the Baptist and Patrick, the patron saints of English and French Catholics.
- monument at Parliament Hill (Quebec City) to soldiers Short and Wallick (1891), two heroes who saved the inhabitants of the fire at Saint-Sauveur in the lower town of Quebec in 1889)
- monument of Father André Garin, priest at St.-Jean-Baptiste Church, at Lowell, Massachusetts.
References[]
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- Bruno Hébert 'Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917)' 1890
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20100613213017/http://ecommunity.uml.edu/francolowellma/history/memorial.htm>
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis-Philippe Hébert. |
- "Louis-Philippe Hébert". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- Canadian Encyclopedia : Louis-Philippe Hébert
- Louis-Philippe Hébert photos by George Lessard
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- 1850 births
- 1917 deaths
- Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- 20th-century Canadian sculptors
- Canadian male sculptors
- 20th-century male artists
- 19th-century Canadian sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery