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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

  
Collections
Selected works from 1900 to 2000

Alfred Laliberté
Sainte-Élisabeth-de-Warwick (Québec, Canada), 1878 – Montréal (Québec, Canada), 1953
Training
  • Took classes in drawing and modelling at the Conseil des arts et manufacture in Montréal from 1898 to 1901.
  • Left for Paris in 1902 and studied at the École des beaux-arts. Canadian painter-sculptor Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté became his friend and mentor.
Artistic production
  • His corpus comprises primarily sculptures (plasters, marbles, bronzes, sculptures in wood). Laliberté worked a good many subjects, including busts of historical and religious figures, public and commemorative monuments.
Alongside his artistic career
  • Taught at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from the time it opened in 1922.
Noteworthy accomplishment
  • Six works to decorate the façade of the Parliament Building in Québec City.