Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850 - 1917)
Mlle de Verchères, c.1911
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery - Montreal
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Medium
Bronze
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Time
Fine Canadian Art
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Dimensions
48 x 12,7 x 12,7 cm | 19'' x 5'' x 5''
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Signed
Signed, titled and inscribed at the base "P.Hebert, R, Hohwiller"
A maquette for the statue commissioned from Hébert in 1911 and erected on Verchères Point near Montreal, Quebec in 1919. The 14-year-old heroine Marie Madeleine Jarret de Verchères (1678-1747), the daughter of a Seigneur in New France, famously thwarted an Iroquois raid on Fort Verchères in 1692.
Crédit photo: Monument à Madeleine de Verchères, bronze réalisé par le sculpteur Louis-Philippe Hébert en 1913, ville de Verchères, [Vers 1970], BAnQ Vieux-Montréal, Fonds Armour Landry, (06M,P97,S1,D6625-6625), Armour Landry.
