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D`APRÈS EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE

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Lot 33 | D'APRÈS EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
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€ 60 000 – 80 000
D'APRÈS EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762), SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Louis XV à cheval en costume romain
bronze, sur une terrasse rectangulaire en bronze
H. 66,5 cm (26 1/8 in.), H. totale : 71 cm (28 in.), L. 61 cm (24 in.)




Provenance

Vente Hôtel Drouot, 10 décembre 1982, lot 56 bis.
Vente Couturier Nicolay, 6 décembre1983, lot 45.
Galerie Charles Ratton et Guy Ladrière, Paris, 1997.
Comte et comtesse de Viel Castel ; Sotheby's Paris, 12 septembre 2018, lot 121.
Acheté avant la vente aux enchères susmentionnée par le propriétaire actuel.



Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHIE COMPARATIVE
S. Hoog, Musée National du château de Versailles, Les Sculptures, I – Le Musée, Paris, 1993, p. 245.
A. McClellan, 'The Life and Death of a Royal Monument: Bouchardon's Louis XV', in Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 23, 2000, pp. 1-27.
G. Bresc-Bautier, G. Scherf et J. Draper eds., Cast in Bronze - French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, cat. exp., Paris, 2009, pp. 434-435.
A.-L. Desmas, E. Kopp, G. Scherf et J. Trey, Edme Bouchardon : une idée du beau, cat. exp., Paris, 2016, n° 271.
H. Pforr d'après A. Roserot, Edme Bouchardon, Gennevilliers, 2016, pp. 122-161.



Further Details

A BRONZE 'EQUESTRIAN PORTAIT OF LOUIS XV', AFTER EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762), SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

Originally trained by his father, Edme Bouchardon continued his studies, in Paris, in 1712, with Guillaume Coustou the Elder. Having won the Prix de Rome, he went to the Villa Medici in Rome. Finally, the sculptor decided to settle in the city and for ten years, the study of the antiquities permitted him to develop his own style.
Considered as ‘the greatest sculptor and the best draughtsman of his century’ (Charles-Nicolas Cochin), Bouchardon went back to Paris where he received many royal commissions, including groups for the Bassin de Neptune at Versailles. The city of Paris also commissioned the Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons in the rue de Grenelle. His most prestigious project was commissioned by the aldermen of Paris : a bronze equestrian monument to the glory of Louis XV for the new square bearing his name (now the Place de la Concorde).

Bouchardon devoted the last years of his life to creation of this monument. There are still many testimonies of this project including 225 drawings in the Musée du Louvre and the final model approved by the King (wax and tinted plaster, Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, inv. D 863.3.24). This monument owes a debt to classical Roman and antique vocabulary : Bouchardon represented the King like a Roman emperor and the horse like the antique statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome.
The production of this monumental lost-wax bronze took several years : it was commissioned in 1748 and inaugurated in 1763. The public thaw took place on 6 May 1758, but it took another five years to complete the sculpture. After the Bouchardon’s death, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785), one of his students, took up his master’s work. The monument’s pedestal was completed nine years after the inauguration.

Since its casting in 1758, this sculpture enjoyed great success. The next year, the City of Paris asked the sculptor Louis-Claude Vassé (1717-1772), pupil of Bouchardon, to produce seven bronze reductions of the Bouchardon's models and studies. A copy was offered to the King himself and to Madame de Pompadour ; the bronze offered to the King is probably the one listed in 1792 in the King's apartments at Versailles (S. Hoog, p. 245).
In 1763, Pigalle made a ‘model de la statue du Roy en petit’ (A.L. Desmas et al., Edme Bouchardon: une idée du beau, cat. exp., Paris, 2016, p. 408) slightly larger than Vassé’s examples. As G. Scherf notes (A.L. Desmas et al, loc. cit.), Vassé's casts represented the king younger than the Pigalle's model as in our bronze.

Destroyed during the Revolution, Bouchardon's masterpiece is known through indirect testimonies including the monumental hand in the Musée Carnavalet (inv. RF 94), a few engravings and from bronze reductions made by his pupils and followers.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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