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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]
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 ...
The statue was inaugurated in 1874. The pedestal was designed by the architect Paul Abadie. The artist, who made another version of the monument for the city of Nancy in 1889, replaced the horse of the Parisian monument 10 years later by a copy of the smaller Nancy one, which earned him criticism.
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.
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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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
Delays in the transport of the statue from the workshop to Paris occurred as well. [3] Pietro Tacca and Giovan Battista Cresci had to weigh the statue, which took time that Marie de Médicis had not wanted to waste. [3] Afterwards there was a stall after the statue's pieces arrived in Livorno, as no one decided to ship it out for almost a year. [3]