Ernest Hébert
French painter (1817–1908)
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Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (; 3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter.
Biography
Hébert was born in Grenoble, son of a notary in Grenoble, and moved in 1835 to Paris to study law. He simultaneously took art lessons in the workshops of the sculptor David d'Angers (1788–1856), and also of the history painter Paul Delaroche (1797–1896), but even though he took art lessons he was mostly a selftaught artist. At the age of 22 years he achieved success with his painting Le cup en prison in the Paris Salon. The Académie des Beaux-Arts awarded him the Prix de Rome in 1839 for the biblical composition Joseph's cup in Benjamin's sack. The prize was a scholarship and a long study stay in the Villa Medici in Rome.
His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850–51, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Painted in a Romantic style, it depicts a family of Italian peasants escaping an epidemic by raft, a scene inspired by events Hébert had witnessed while in Italy.
One of Hébert's students Paul Trouillebert was an important artist of the Barbizon School. The artist's house is preserved as the Musée Hébert in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. There is another museum near Grenoble.
Gallery
Image:Ernest Hébert - The Mal'aria - Google Art Project.jpg|Mal'aria (1848–49), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Image:Combats entre les insurgés de Saint-Domingue et les troupes françaises envoyées par Napoléon Bonaparte (1802-1803).jpg|Attack and capture of the Crête-à-Pierrot, 1839 Image:Hébert Malaria.jpg|La Mal'aria, 1848 Image:Hébert Louise Lefuel Hochon.jpg|Louise Lefuel Hochon, Musée Hébert, Paris. File:Hébert Ofelia.jpg|Ophélie, Musée Hébert, Paris. Image:Léon Laurent-Pichat.jpg|Portrait of the writer, Léon Laurent-Pichat Image:Herbert - Two Odalisques Contemplating The Bosphorus.jpg|Two Odalisques Contemplating the Bosphorus, 1843 Image:Panthéon mosaïque abside.JPG|Mosaic in the apse of the Panthéon (Paris)
References
References
- [http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/manifestations/expositions/au-musee-dorsay/presentation-generale/article/chronique-italienne-dessins-dernest-hebert-1817-1908-4105.html ''Chronique italienne, dessins d'Ernest Hébert'' bei www.musee-orsay.fr]
- Rosenblum, Robert. (1989). "Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay". Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
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