Louis-Philippe Hébert
Spring
Artist
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax, Quebec, 1850 – Westmount, Quebec, 1917
Title
Spring
Date
1909
Materials
Patinated plaster
Dimensions
51 x 24.5 x 26 cm
Credits
Gift of Émile Colas, Q.C., LL.D., inv. 2006.27
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
In Canada, the safest way of creating a modest pretext for a full-length nude in the still uncharted realm of profane sculpture was through allegory. Hébert was a precursor: since 1890, he had been executing statuettes to produce in series for broad distribution. But because demand in Canada was limited, the two European founders he worked with did not acquire any of these pieces or their reproduction rights. Spring was produced in plaster only.
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