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

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(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

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

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 Salon of 1850–51, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay,

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Style

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 Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name ...

. The artist's house is preserved as the Musée Hébert in the

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. There is another museum near Grenoble.

Gallery

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,

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References

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