Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert

Bellerophon by Émile Hébert, Chicago, Palmer House Hilton Hotel. Amazon Preparing for Battle, 1860, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art.

Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (October 12 or 20, 1823 – 1893) was a French sculptor. As the son of sculptor Pierre Hébert, he studied with his father and Jean-Jacques Feuchère (1807–1852). Émile Hébert participated in the Salon de Paris and the Exposition Universelle (1855), creating the allegorical statues La Comédie and Le Drame for the vaudeville theatre in Paris. He was awarded a Second Class Medal in 1872. Émile Hébert was one of the few sculptors to collaborate with the renowned bronze fondeur Georges Servant, resulting in pieces in the Neo-Grecian and Egyptian Revival styles.

Selected works

Jeune fille sauvant une abeille, 1855 Méphistophélès, bronze, Stanford University, 1855 L'Amour suppliant, 1859 Amazone se préparant à la bataille, bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1860 Et toujours !! Et jamais !!, Collection Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada, 1863 Bacchus, 1866 La Pologne, medallion, 1867 M. Servant, bust, 1867 Bas-reliefs du monument à L'Amiral Duperré, La Rochelle, 1868 Œdipe, 1869 L'Oracle, marble bas-relief, 1872 Bellérophon vainqueur de la Chimère, 1874 Sémiramis, reine d'Assyrie, bust, 1874 Alexandre Tessier, propagateur du moutons mérinos, bronze bust, 1876 Buste de Balzac, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1877 Table de style néo-grec, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, c. 1878 Rabelais, Chinon, 1882 L'Oracle, bas-relief, 1893