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Marble statue of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1670s); now replaced by a copy at the end of the pièce d'eau des Suisses []; Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), initially erected near Djamaa el Djedid in Algiers and relocated in 1981 [3]
This statue was designed by Pierre Cartellier. When he died in 1831, only the horse, originally designed for an equestrian statue of Louis XV commissioned in 1816 by Louis XVIII for the Place de la Concorde in Paris and which was ultimately never built, was finished. [1] The rider is the work of Louis Petitot, Cartelier's son-in-law.
It is the only public commission of the state from 1870 to 1914, called the Golden Age of statuary in Paris, the other statues were funded by private subscriptions. The sculptor took as his model Aimée Girod (1856–1937), a young woman from Domrémy, Joan of Arc's village in Lorraine. The statue was inaugurated in 1874.
in front of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris (1895), cast by Edmond Gruet Jeune, purchased in 1895 by the Fine Arts Directorate of the French Government and placed on its current location in 1900; [6] in front of Reims Cathedral (1896), cast by Pierre Bingen [ fr ] with finishings by Fonderie Thiébaut Frères [ fr ] , inaugurated by President ...
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...
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By the time of the 1900 Paris Exposition, he had so many commands that he served principally as a modeler, employing a large studio of assistants to actually make the statues. He conceived his famous statue, The Thinker , in 1881-1882, and displayed a full-size model in 1904 at the Salon des Beaux-Arts.
A view of the Place des Victoires with the equestrian statue of Louis XIV at its centre. The Place des Victoires ( French pronunciation: [plas de viktwaŹ] ; English: Victory Square, lit. 'Square of Victories') is a circular square in central Paris , located a short distance northeast of the Palais-Royal and straddling the border between the ...