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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]
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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. [1] [2]
Bronze for the new statue was obtained from a statue of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, as well as from the statue of Napoleon in Place Vendôme. [4] [7] The new version of the statue, made by François-Frédéric Lemot, was finished by 1818. [4] The statue that can be seen today varies from its previous version.
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
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 ...