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 Henri Hébert, a sculptor, and Adrien Hébert, 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
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
Montreal, Quebec
Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget Monument (1903) is in front of Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
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
- 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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- "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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