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ANTIQUE #SA742266

A Pair Of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze French Marly Horses. after Guillaume Costou The Elder (french, 1677-1746).

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Sold by: Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria

The Bronzes are after Guillaume Coustouv’s Horse Tamer, from the “Chevaux de Marly” series. “Marly Horses” (often incorrectly called “Marley” horses) are so called after the pair of Carrara marble horses sculpted by Guillaume Coustou in 1739, as a commission for Louis XV for the Chateau at Marly-le-Roi near Paris. There were entitled Horse Restrained by Groom. They are now in the Marly Sculpture Courtyard at the Louvre.
 
Footnote: Guillaume Costou the Elder was a French Sculptor and academician. He won the Colbert prize giving him a four-year scholarship at the French Academy in Rome. He soon left it, however and according to legend, wandered homeless around the streets of Rome for some time.On his return to Paris he helped his uncle execute the monumental equestrian sculptures of Fame and Mercury for Marley, which were to be replaced by his own Horse Tamers, which reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the ‘Horse Tamers’ in the Piazza Quirinale, in Rome. Marley was whe...
Antique SA742266 shown on this page was made in the 19th Century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
19th Century
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