Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850-1917)

Mlle de Verchères

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Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850-1917)
Mlle de Verchères
marked on the base ‘P. HÉBERT / Mlle de Verchères’
bronze
19 ½in. (49.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A maquette for the statue commissioned from Hébert in 1911 and erected on Verchères Point near Montreal, Quebec in 1919. The 14-year-old heroine Marie Madeleine Jarret de Verchères (1678-1747), the daughter of a Seigneur in New France, famously thwarted an Iroquois raid on Fort Verchères in 1692.

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