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10/28/2025 - 02/15/2026
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
An amateur painter and the wife of artist Ernest Hébert, twice director of the French Academy in Rome, Gabrielle Hébert began photographing with great intensity and enthusiasm at the Villa Medici in 1888. Like artists and writers such as Henri Rivière, Maurice Denis, or Émile Zola, who in the late 19th century took up a camera to capture family life, Gabrielle developed a private and sentimental approach to the medium, encouraged by the technical and aesthetic revolution of snapshot photography. She stopped abruptly twenty years later in La Tronche (near Grenoble), upon the death of the man she idolized, nearly forty years her senior, and whose legacy she largely ensured by supporting the creation of two monographic museums, one in La Tronche (1934) and the other in Paris (1978).
Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
An amateur painter and the wife of artist Ernest Hébert, twice director of the French Academy in Rome, Gabrielle Hébert began photographing with great intensity and enthusiasm at the Villa Medici in 1888. Like artists and writers such as Henri Rivière, Maurice Denis, or Émile Zola, who in the late 19th century took up a camera to capture family life, Gabrielle developed a private and sentimental approach to the medium, encouraged by the technical and aesthetic revolution of snapshot photography. She stopped abruptly twenty years later in La Tronche (near Grenoble), upon the death of the man she idolized, nearly forty years her senior, and whose legacy she largely ensured by supporting the creation of two monographic museums, one in La Tronche (1934) and the other in Paris (1978).