Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
M. Martin, Les Monuments Equestres de Louis XIV, Paris, 1989
F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol II, Oxford, 1981, no. 65
The present group is a reduction of the monumental bronze by François Girardon (1628-1715), which was unveiled in 1699 in the Place Vendôme, Paris. Although the original was destroyed during the Revolution, the composition is known through numerous engravings and bronze reductions.
A related reduction was sold by the Executors of the late Dr. Daniel McLean McDonald in these Rooms, 7 July 1992, lot 127