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A FRENCH EQUESTRIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF LOUIS XIV
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A FRENCH EQUESTRIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF LOUIS XIV

LATE 18TH CENTURY, AFTER FRANÇOIS GIRARDON

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A FRENCH EQUESTRIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF LOUIS XIV
LATE 18TH CENTURY, AFTER FRANÇOIS GIRARDON
On a rectangular ebonised and brass-threaded wood base, greenish brown patina with brassy high points
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high; 19¾ in. (50.5 cm.) high overall
Provenance
Lochum Collection
Nystad Collection, Amsterdam
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV, vol. II, Oxford, 1977, pp. 55-58
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Lot Essay

The inspiration for the present lot is Francois Girardon's (1628-1715) monumental equestrian model of Louis XIV, erected in 1699 in the Place Louis-le-Grand, Paris. The monument was completely destroyed, save one of the horse's feet (now in the Louvre), in the third year of the French Revolution, however numerous reduced scale bronze casts including a number under Girardon's supervision survive as testimony to his prototype. Although the present bronze varies slightly in size and detail to Girardon's subsequent casts, it is typical of examples produced in French workshops at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.

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