Bataille de QuŽbec sur les plaines dŐAbraham
QuŽbec sous le contr™le Britannique
The Death of General Wolfe
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe 1770
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
To depict the death of Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of
Abraham in 1759, West grouped the figures around the fallen general as in a
Lamentation of Christ. The artist rejected the convention of representing
contemporary heroes in antique armor (see Joseph Wilton's marble bust of Wolfe),
paying scrupulous attention to the details of their uniforms, and to the native
costumes based on Woodlands aboriginal artifacts in his possession. The picture
created a sensation at the Royal Academy in London, in 1771.
La mort de Montcalm en 1759 sur les plaines dŐAbraham
