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Hebert, Pierre-Eugéne-Emile
“Thetis” | after Pierre Emile Hébert & Georges Servant
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Hebert, Pierre-Eugéne-Emile
Pierre-Eugéne-Emile Hebert was born in Paris in 1828 and studied under his father, a well regarded sculptor Pierre Hebert, and under Jean-Jacques Feuchére. At the age of 18 he debuted at Salon, where he continued to exhibit almost every year continuously until his death in 1893, also completing some commissioned public works. He is particularly known for Comedy and Drama, stone groups at the Théatre du Vaudeville and his group The Oracle (now at the museum in Vienna). His works are held in museums and institutions throughout the United States and Great Britain.
In its summary of Hébert, the National Gallery of Art notes that “Hébert often adjusted his style to historical subject: severe neo-Greek handling in his Thetis, Oracle, and Oedipus and the Sphinx; and stylized and rigid neo-Egyptian handling in his busts of Rameses and Isis. Some of his most intriguing work is in this historicizing mode, which provides especially useful insights into nineteenth-century French Orientalism.”
His works are held in museums and institutions throughout the United States and Great Britain.
Literature and References:
- Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders 1800-1930, Berman
- "E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol VI", Gründ, 2006, p. 1290
- "Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century, Dictionary of Artists", Kjellberg, p. 376
- “The Romantics to Rodin, French Nineteenth Century Sculpture”, Fusco & Janson, 1980, p. 294-95
- “Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l’Ecole Francaise”, Lami, 1914-21, p. 91-93