Louis-Philippe Hébert

For other people with the same name, see Louis Hebert (disambiguation).

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.

Louis-Philippe Hébert
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

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

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  Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1880s) at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario
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  Sir John A. Macdonald (1880s)
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  Queen Victoria (1900), dedicated by Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York in 1901.
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  Alexander Mackenzie (1901).

Nova Scotia

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  Evangeline (unveiled 1920), Grand Pre, Nova Scotia
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  Joseph Howe (1904), Province House, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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  Libel trial of Joseph Howe, Supreme Court (current Legislative Library), Province House (Nova Scotia)

Quebec Parliament Building

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  « La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family sculpture facade of the Quebec Parliament Building, Québec City.
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  « La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family
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  Charles-Michel de Salaberry
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  James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
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  James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm
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  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis sculpture

Montreal, Quebec

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  Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square, Montreal, Quebec
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  Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square
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  Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
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  Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
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  Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget Monument (1903) is in front of Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
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  Louis-Philippe Hébert's John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal.
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  John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal

Maisonneuve Monument

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  Maisonneuve Monument (1895) was erected in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in the Place d'Armes square Montreal, Quebec.
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  Mascaron.
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  Acte de foundation de Ville-Marie.
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  Mort heroique de Dollard au Long Sault.
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  Premiere messe a Ville-Marie.
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  Iroquois.
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  Charles Le Moyne.
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  Lambert Closse.
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  Jeanne Mance.

Other

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  Bishop Joseph Eugene Guiges outside Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa
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  Octave Crémazie Monument near the house of Émile Nelligan
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  Madeleine de Verchères (1927) was erected in Verchères, Quebec
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  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.

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