Sunday 2 October 2016

Equestrian Statue of Louis XV by Bouchardon. Place Louis XV Paris. Revised 26 May 2017


Equestrian Statue of Louis XV
by Edme Bouchardon (1698 - 1762).

Commissioned in 1748 and cast Saturday 6 May 1758. Originally the contract for the casting was made with Varin Pere et Fils but with the death of the father a new contract was made with Pierre Gor, Commissaire Général des Fontes at the Arsenal, Paris. He was assisted by Maritz, Inspecteur Général des Fontes de l’Artillerie de France.
After casting the chiselling and final finishing which was supervised by Pigalle after the death of Bouchardon took a further 5 years.
The statue was installed Place Louis XV (now Place de Concorde), Paris
19 February 1763.
see -
and for a 5 minute film showing a simplified but informative account of casting this statue see -
Drawing by Bouchardon from the 2016 Exhibition.




Bouchardon prepared hundreds of sketches for this project - I include just three for now.
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The reduced cast by Louis Claude Vasse c 1759 - 63 in the Louvre, Paris.



The Plaster copy by Pigalle.
Musee Carnivalet, Paris.











Pierre Patte, Plate I of Monuments érigés en France à la gloire de Louis XV, .....

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Medallion by Duvivier
1764
 74 mm Diam.

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Turgot's Birds Eye View Plan of Paris of 1739 showing the Place Louis le Grand (Place Vendome) with The Equestrian statue of Louis XIV and the future Place Louis XV.

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After Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724–1780 Paris)

 Etched by Pierre Chenu (French, Paris 1730–late 18th century)
1766.Decoration perspective des illuminations de la place Louis XV. faites le 22 juin 1763, vue d’optique publiée chez Mondhare, vers 1763, Gallica/BnF


Metropolitan Museum.


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Georges-Louis Le Rouge (c.1712 - c.1790).



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Low resolution image of the engraving.

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Unidentified map 1787.

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Louis Brion de la Tour (1743-1803) detail from Nouveau Plan de Paris.
pub. Rouen 1787.
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Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) Nouveau Detail Plan of Paris ses Faubourgs et ses Environs Revu, fixes et par le Augmenté S r . Desnos Géographe Ingénieur pour les Globes et qui SPHERES s'attachent ... les changements lorsque les circonstances le demandent. Paris chez l'auteur rue St. Jacques au Globe 1766.

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Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809).
Oil on canvas
44.7 x 60.7 cm
Inauguration of the Statue of Louis XV on the Place Louis XV c. 1763/1769.
Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Engraving by Hubert Gravelot.

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Nicolas Pérignon,

Vue de la place Louis XV, avant la construction du pont, watercolour and Gouache circa 1780,

Gallica/BnF

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Decoration perspective des illuminations de la place Louis XV. faites le 22 juin 1763, vue d’optique publiée chez Mondhare, vers 1763, Gallica/BnF

Detail cropped from above watercolour.

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Pierre-Antoine de Machy,

 Place Louis XV et terrasse des Tuileries, 1784,

 Watercolour,

Gallica/BnF

 

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The Place Louis XV by Antoine Francois Peyres (1739 - 1823).
1773.
Watercolour
16.9 x 28.1 cms.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

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Alexis Nicolas Perignon (1726-1782) Vue de la place Louis XV, before the construction of the bridge Pont, watercolour c. 1780.
 Bibliotheque Nationale.

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For an excellent overview of the history and geography of the Place Louis XV (Place Concorde) see













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The only surviving fragment of the statue of Louis XV by Bouchardon.
Louvre, Paris.



Portrait of Bouchardon by Francois Hubert Drouais.
Presented at the Academie on 25 November, 1758 depicting a Model of the Equestrian Statue of Louis XV.
Musee Carnavalet. Paris.


Miniature Portrait of Bouchardon by Guiseppe McPherson (1726 - 1780)


see - https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/421132/edme-bouchardon-1698-1762


 The End.


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