Lot 127
127
Sold by Order of the Executors of the Late DR DANIEL McLEAN McDONALD
A FRENCH BRONZE EQUESTRIAN FIGURE OF LOUIS XIV, after François Girardon, the horse's rear leg resting on a shield, integral rectangular bronze base (on painted pedestal wood base), late 18th or early 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE EQUESTRIAN FIGURE OF LOUIS XIV, after François Girardon, the horse's rear leg resting on a shield, integral rectangular bronze base (on painted pedestal wood base), late 18th or early 19th Century
43½in. (110.5cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Europäische Barockplastik am Niederrhein, 1971, no. 337, pl. 200
F. Souchal, French Sculptors, London, 1981, II, no. 65, pp. 55-6

Lot Essay

The original, monumental group of Louis XIV, designed by Girardon and cast by J-B. Keller was unveiled in 1699. Many bronze reductions survive, several of which are contemporary casts (Souchal, op.cit.). However, firm dating of the majority of the casts is extremely difficult (Dusseldorf, op.cit.)

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