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The stance of this equestrian subject, which was one of the sculptors favourite models, is a reduction of the horse from the monumental bronze statue of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, erected in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence in 1594.
Giambologna was inspired by the antique over-sized bronze of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome), which had been set up as the focus of Michelangelo's rearrangement of the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome. A version of the pacing horse was sent as a diplomatic gift to Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 and was inherited by his brother, King Charles I.