"Je me souviens" When Art Imagines History

The exhibition features some 35 paintings and sculptures with a historical theme, grouped together under two main headings: “Depicting History” and “The Parliament Buildings.” The works date from 1880 to 1930, when the commemorative movement in Québec was at its height, and include paintings by Eugène Hamel, Napoléon Bourassa, Charles Huot and Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté and sculptures by Louis-Philippe Hébert and Alfred Laliberté. Two monumental historical paintings, unique and without equal in Canada, stand out: The Apotheosis of Christopher Columbus by Napoléon Bourassa and Charles Alexander’s Demonstration of Canadians against the English Government, at Saint-Charles, in 1837, also called The Assembly of the Six Counties.