, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Dollard des Ormeaux, 1916
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Canadian, 1850
- 1917
bronze
92.1 x 44.8 x 37 cm
Purchased 1987
National Gallery of Canada (no. 29699)
In the midst of battle, Dollard des Ormeaux raises his sword and urges his companions to fight to the finish. A colonist, holding his gun by the barrel, prepares for hand-to-hand combat while his Huron ally succumbs to his wounds. The subject, drawn from Louis Fréchette's "La Légende d'un peuple" (1887) immortalizing the heroes of New France recounts the determination of these comrades-in-arms to avert a massive attack by the Iroquois against the French settlements of Ville-Marie (Montreal), Trois-Rivières, and Quebec in 1660.
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