D'APRÈS PIERRE CARTELLIER (1757 - 1831) ET LOUIS-MESSIDOR PETITOT (1794 - 1862)

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D'APRÈS PIERRE CARTELLIER (1757 - 1831) ET LOUIS-MESSIDOR PETITOT (1794 - 1862)
Equestrian portrait of Louis XIVBronze chased with brown patina. Height : 83 cm - Width : 58 cm Depth : 23,5 cm The King on horseback adopts mainly two gaits. The first is a calm gait: the horse has one of its forelegs raised and the hind leg diagonally detached from the ground. This gait, combining majesty and elegance, is called "the passage". The second is "the levade": more lively, the horse lifts its forelegs while almost sitting on its hindlegs. It symbolizes the charge and evokes the heroism of the sovereign, even if he never charges. Sitting on his horse and brandishing the baton of command, Louis XIV becomes, by the amplified gesture of the one who leads an army, the symbol of military authority and power. This sculpture is a scale model of the bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV located on the Place d'Armes in front of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Pierre Cartellier, it was unfinished at his death in 1831, only the horse initially designed for an equestrian statue of Louis XV commissioned in 1816 by Louis XVIII for the Place de la Concorde (not realized) being then completed. Louis XIV is the work of Louis Petitot. The whole will be, in 1838, cast in bronze by Charles Crozatier, who will carry out certain reduced models. Pierre Cartellier, (1757 - 1831) goldsmith and sculptor, was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and a member of the Institute. Louis XVIII commissioned him to create the equestrian statue of Louis XIV to celebrate the restoration of the Bourbon family. Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot, known as Louis Petitot (1794 - 1862), was the son of the sculptor Pierre Petitot and a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, whose son-in-law he became. He won the Prix de Rome in 1814 and resided at the Villa Medici from 1815 to 1819.
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