CAST AFTER THE MODELS BY GUILLAUME COUSTOU I, FRENCH, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Guillaume Coustou (1677-1746) was one of the leading sculptors of the first half of the 18th Century. He is especially known for his "Marly Horses". These life-size marble groups were created between 1740-1745 for Louis XV's chateau at Marly, but are now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. (Christopher Payne, Animals in bronze, Woodbridge, 1986, p. 341 and p. 400)

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