Pietro Sormani
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Equestrian sculpture with Louis XIV
After Girandon. Signed with a stamp P Sormani, Paris. Bronze, brown patina. Height 62 cm (excluding base 16 cm).
Provenance
Juniper Hall, Dorking, England.
Literature
E. Bénézit, "Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et reaveurs"
U. Thieme & F. Becker, "Allgemeines lexikon der bildenden kunstler"
G.K Nagel, Neues Allgemeines Kunstler Lexikon, Volume 17, 1847
C v. Wurzback, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Volume 36, 1878, p. 28
More information
In 1699 François Girardon completed the bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV, erected by the town of Paris on the Place Louis le Grand (today Place Vendôme). The king is dressed as an Roman emperor. This statue was melted down during the French Revolution, and is known to us only by a small bronze model at the Louvre Museum finished by Girardon himself.