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The Death of General Wolfe

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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Tabernacle, c. 1741

Jourdain, Paul (dit Labrosse)
Canadian, 1697 - 1769
gilded butternut and basswood
172.2 x 280.8 x 65 cm
Purchased 1968
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15668.2)

In the Roman Catholic religion, the tabernacle is a locked cabinet holding the elements of the Eucharist, placed in the centre of the altar table. Here, however, the term is expanded to include the entire structure. This gilded example originally graced the church of Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil, near Montreal. Its ample dimensions and generous ornamentation give a foretaste of the style that would characterize the tabernacles of New France.

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