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Louis-Philippe Hébert
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Louis-Philippe Hébert
Born 27 January 1850
Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Canada East
Died 13 June 1917
Westmount, Montreal, Quebec
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. 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. 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

Nova Scotia

Quebec Parliament Building

  • QuebecFontaineHébert

    « La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family sculpture facade of the Quebec Parliament Building, Québec City.

  • Facade Parlement Quebec

    « La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family

  • Charles Michel de Salaberry

    Charles-Michel de Salaberry

  • Assemblée nationale du Québec - Wolfe et Montcalm

    James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm

  • Francois-Gaston Duc de Levis

    Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis sculpture

Montreal, Quebec

Maisonneuve Monument

  • Monument a Maisonneuve

    Maisonneuve Monument (1895) was erected in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in the Place d'Armes square Montreal, Quebec.

  • Monument Maisonneuve Mascaron

    Mascaron.

  • Acte de fondation de Ville-Marie

    Acte de foundation de Ville-Marie.

  • Mort heroique de Dollard au Long Sault.JPG

    Mort heroique de Dollard au Long Sault.

  • Premiere messe a Ville-Marie

    Premiere messe a Ville-Marie.

  • Charles Le Moyne

    Charles Le Moyne.

  • Lambert Closse

    Lambert Closse.

Other

  • 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.
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