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Lot 180TP

Emmanuel Frémiet (French, 1824-1910): A gilt bronze equestrian figure of Louis D'Orleans

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18 – 19 April 2023, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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Emmanuel Frémiet (French, 1824-1910): A gilt bronze equestrian figure of Louis D'Orleans

the figure clad in armour, the visor to his helmet raised, a shield to his back, seated on his armoured steed, raised on a naturalistic oval base signed E.FREMIET, and mounted on a Verdi antico rectangular plinth with applied presentation plaque inscribed, LOUIS D'ORLEANS XIVE SICLE BY EMMANUEL FREMIET H.F.R.A EXHIBITED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY LONDON 1908, the lance in two sections together and with a detached stirrup and visor 85cm high, 41cm long and 22cm deep, overall approximately

Footnotes

This bronze is a reduction of the statue of Louis d'Orléans équestre commissioned by the French State for the courtyard of the Château de Pierrefonds in 1869.
As the youngest son of King Charles V of France, Louis d'Orléans (1372-1407) received by royal prerogative the Duchy of Touraine and to strengthen his territory built a fortress at Pierrefonds.
Besieged in the 17th century and left as a romantic ruin for two centuries, the Château de Pierrefonds was a cause célèbre of Napoleon III who pursued a program of restoration that was subsumed by the creation of an Imperial Residence which leaves the château today very much a 19th century imagining of a medieval castle. The restorations included the commissioning of Louis d'Orléans équestre, of which reductions were edited by the Barbedienne foundry in three sizes.

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