Ernest Hébert

Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter. Hébert was born in Grenoble, 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 David d'Angers (1788–1856), and also of the history painter Paul Delaroche (1797–1896), but even though he to...