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Crédit photo: Snejanka Popova, 2003
Monument à Jean-Olivier Chénier
1891
Alfonso Pelzer

German-born Alfonso Pelzer arrived in the United States in the early 1890s. He worked as a furnaceman for W. H. Mullins, in Salem, Ohio. Aside from Monument à Jean-Olivier Chénier, only one other artwork can be attributed to him: a statue of Abraham Lincoln in New Jersey. He returned to Germany, where he died in 1904.

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Category
Sculpture
Owner(s)
Ville de Montréal
Acquisition mode
Donation by public subscription
Materials
copper, granite, resin
Overall size
400 x 100 x 100 cm
Technique(s)
tin soldering
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Ville-Marie
Location
Square Viger
Localization
corner Saint-Denis and Saint-Antoine St
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Artwork description

This monument in the likeness of Jean-Olivier Chénier plays an important historical role in memory of the Patriotes. It stands in Viger Square, bordered by Rue Saint-Denis and Rue Saint-Antoine.

Dressed in a frock coat and wearing the Patriote arrowhead sash, armed with a musket and a pistol, his powder horn in a bandolier, the figure is moving forward, extending his arm into the distance, seeming to indicate the path to follow to the fighters behind him. The artwork is made of embossed copper leaves on a core of metal and stands on a pink-granite base. The objects replaced when the sculpture was restored are made of resin.