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After Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746)
The Marly Horses 1740-45
Bronze | RCIN 44189
Green Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
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Pair of bronze statues of rearing horses, each with a classical male attendent wearing drapery around his waist and holding the reins in his hands. Resting on a plain rectangular bronze base set in an ebonised wooden stand. The first horse facing right, the second facing left.
Provenance
Purchased from the dealer Pierre-Joseph-Ignace Lafontaine, March 1813 (Jutsham I, p. 251) and placed in the Circular Room, Carlton House. Sent to Windsor Castle in December 1828 (Jutsham II, p. 193). -
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Medium and techniques
Bronze
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