Louis-Philippe Hébert
Algonquins
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax, Quebec, 1850 – Westmount, Quebec, 1917
Algonquins
1916 (cast early 1920s)
Bronze
63.2 x 67.4 x 22.8 cm
Cast R. Hohwiller, Paris
Gift of the Jacques K. Laflamme and Jacqueline Cummings Laflamme Estate in honour of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' 150th anniversary, inv. 2009.197
Quebec and Canadian Art
The bronzes Algonquins and Fisherman with a Spear were the result of a prestigious commission for the entrance and fountain of the Parliament Building in Quebec City. By July 1888, in his Paris studio, Hébert had begun working on the large clay model of an Abenaki family (known as A Halt in the Forest), which is the basis for the reduced Algonquins. In August 1889, he won a bronze medal for this work at the Exposition universelle in Paris – a first for a Canadian artist. In October, he undertook the full-size model of Fisherman with a Spear. Both works were presented at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1890.
