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

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of 1850–51, and now hangs in the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

, Paris.

Style

Painted in a

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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 Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 in Paris, France – 28 June 1900 in Paris, France) was a famous French Barbizon School painter in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Life and career Trouillebert is considered a portrait, an ...

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: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,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hebert, Ernest 1817 births 1908 deaths Artists from Grenoble 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Academic art Prix de Rome for painting 19th-century French male artists