Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (; 3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter.

Biography

Hébert was born in

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, 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

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(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

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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

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. 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

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. There is another museum near Grenoble.

Gallery

Image:Ernest Hébert - The Mal'aria - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Mal'aria'' (1848–49),

. Image:Haitian Revolution.jpg, Attack and take 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,

. File:Hébert Ofelia.jpg, ''Ophélie'', Musée Hébert,

. Image:Léon Laurent-Pichat.jpg, Portrait of the writer, Léon Laurent-Pichat Image:Herbert - Two Odalisques Contemplating The Bosphorus.jpg, ''Two

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s Contemplating the

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'', 1843 Image:Panthéon mosaïque abside.JPG, Mosaic in the apse of the Panthéon (Paris)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hebert, Ernest 1817 births 1908 deaths Artists from Grenoble Painters from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 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