Louis-Philippe Hébert | |
|---|---|
 Louis-Philippe Hébert | |
| Born | 27 January 1850 Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Canada East |
| Died | 13 June 1917 |
| Education | Napoléon Bourassa |
| Known for | sculptor, educator |
Louis-Philippe Hébert CMG RCA (27 January 1850 – 13 June 1917) was a Canadian sculptor. He is considered one of the best sculptors of his generation.
Career
Hébert was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Canada East. At age 19, he enrolled as a Papal Zouave and left for Italy where he found the art an eye-opener. The trip had a major impact on his career. Back in Canada, in 1872, he was initiated in making sculpture in wood by Adolphe Rho at Bécancour, then was mentored by Napoléon Bourassa in new approaches to sculpture in Canada.[1] Hébert sculpted forty monuments, busts, medals and statues in wood, bronze and terra-cotta and 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 Henri Hébert, a sculptor, and Adrien Hébert, a painter.
Hébert was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1880 and 1895), a full member in 1886-1889 and 1906.[2] At the Exposition universelle de Paris in 1889, Hébert received a bronze medal, the first for a Canadian artist. He also was awarded the Medal of Confederation (1894) and was made a chevalier of France's Legion of Honour (1901), as well as 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 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
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
Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis sculpture
Montreal, Quebec
Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square
Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins_24-MAY-2006.JPG.webp)
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
- ↑ "Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
External links
- "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