, 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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Sigh of the Lake, 1903
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Canadian, 1850
- 1917
bronze
55 x 16 x 16 cm
Gift of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1990
National Gallery of Canada (no. 35536)
From the 1890s Louis-Philippe Hébert produced a number of smaller sculptures, many drawn from imagined or real episodes in the history of New France. The story of this idealized and eroticized Algonquin woman leaning against her nigog or fishing spear is clarified in the inscription on the base. "L'homme blanc fuirait il la cabane algonquine ?" Used by the white colonist, will she be abandoned and left behind?
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