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Názov:
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Edward, The Black Prince
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Umelec: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is the maquette for an equestrian statue of the Black Prince, which Marochetti conceived as a pair to his already completed statue of Richard Coeur de Lion. It was his intention that these two statues should stand together in Old Palace Yard, flanking the Peers' Entrance to the Houses of Parliament. News of Marochetti's plan reached the press after the statue of Richard had been erected in October 1860. The Illustrated London News expressed its outrage in the supplement to its number for 12 January 1861. Referring to the proposed pairing it commented: "We are to have, upon an equal scale of grandeur, a statue of Edward the Black Prince - the age of chivalry and bigotry in their wildest extremes represented in the one, that of unjust aggressive war in the other - the genius of the British nation and the noble representative institutions which make and maintain it what it is, in neither". The failure of this plan to go through has been ascribed, probably rightly to the death of Prince Albert, who was Marochetti's chief promoter in Britain.
The Prince is represented in ceremonial armour with the quartered arms of England and France emblazoned on his tabard. The reliefs on the pedestal represent a scene from the Battle of Crecy and the Black Prince serving food to the captive King John of France. Each of these relief panels is flanked by panels with shields, one bearing the quartered arms of Britain and France and the other the three ostrich feathers plucked from the helmet of the King of Bohemia at Crecy, which subsequently became known as the Prince of Wales Feathers.
Another cast of the equestrian statue alone is in the Royal Collection, but the version sold at Sotheby's is remarkable for including the pedestal with its reliefs. It was acquired from a continental private collection by the dealer John Harrison around 2000, and was sold through Sotheby's on 10 Dec. 2004 (Lot 179) to a private collector in the United States.
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Materiál: |
Bronze
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Zakončenie: |
Unassigned |
Leštidlo: |
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Technika: |
Cast |
Štýl: |
Portrait Statue (Equestrian)
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Farby: |
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Rok: |
1861 |
Výška: |
0.86 metres |
Šírka: |
0.62 metres |
Hĺbka: |
0 metres |
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Kľúč: |
2325 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2325 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2325 |
Počet Videní: |
2687 |
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