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Joan of Arc at Place du Parvis, Reims, by Paul Dubois (1896), new cast of the Paris version, erected in 1900; Joan of Arc in Mirecourt, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1903), new cast of the Paris version; Joan of Arc at the Ballon d'Alsace, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1906), new cast of the Montebourg version
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 ...
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.
Bernini followed French tradition creating equestrian statues of French kings in their own residences, with notable examples by François Mansart, Charles Perrault, and Pierre Cottard. [6] Despite tradition, Bernini was the first in France to design an equestrian statue to be freestanding with a rearing horse rather than attached to building.
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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 ...
The horse that is portrayed in the statue is Burmese, a horse gifted to Elizabeth II by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. [5] Gabriel Dumont: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: 1985 William Epp Located on the grounds of Friendship Park. [6] Saint George: Saint-Georges, Quebec: 1915 Louis Jobin