MAKE A MEME View Large Image Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hébert - Virgin of the Deliverance - Walters 375.jpg Hébert was yet another of the artists working in the orbit of Paul Delaroche whose name fell into relative obscurity in the last century He was in fact like ...
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Keywords: Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hébert - Virgin of the Deliverance - Walters 375.jpg Hébert was yet another of the artists working in the orbit of Paul Delaroche whose name fell into relative obscurity in the last century He was in fact like Delaroche one of the most highly regarded and decorated painters of his generation winning medals at several Expositions Universelles World's Fairs He received the Grande Croix of the Legion of Honor in 1903 This is a variant based on a large-scale altarpiece that Hébert painted in time for the Salon of 1872 and that was finally installed in the church of his native town La Tronche the following year Unlike the original altarpiece which has a patterned background this version is stylized to recall the conventions of Byzantine icons The gold ground raised haloes and Greek letters-mu rho theta and upsilon the abbreviation of Maria Theotokos Mary God-bearer often found in Byzantine mosaics-lend the painting a schematic flatness that contrasts dramatically with the otherwise convincingly three-dimensional figures between 1872 1886 oil on panel gesso cm 40 3 28 3 accession number 37 5 31086 Collection of Mrs Mary J Morgan date and mode of acquisition unknown Mary J Morgan Sale New York March 3-5 1886 no 12 William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1886 Signature Lower left H place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Ernest Hébert French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 19th-century paintings of Madonna and Child Paintings not categorised by year 19th-century religious paintings in the United States
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