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Title:
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Queen Victoria on Horseback - statuette
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This statuette is a reduction of the statue created by Marochetti for Glasgow between 1850 and 1854, which, with the exception of the horse's hind-quarters, is identical to the modified statue of the Queen erected as a pendant to that of Prince Albert in George Square in the city in 1866. Interestingly, Marochetti has changed the head of the portrait, to correspond with the more telling portrait of the Queen which he had exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1855. We can date this statuette quite precisely to 1856, when it was presented to Prince Albert as a Christmas present by the Queen (see Victoria and Albert. Art & Love, exh catalogue, ed. by Jonathan Marsden, Royal Collections Publication, 2010, p.462). That cast still exists in the Royal Collection. Two other versions of it have been located. This version was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 1991. Another was acquired in 2009 from an English dealer by the Musée Girodet at Montargis.
The
photographer Nadar (pseudonym of Félix Tournachon) reported in his memoirs
having seen in the studio of the London -based photographer Camille Silvy, a
solid silver equestrian stauette of Queen Victoria, housed in a chapel-like enclosure,
behind a grill. This replaced Marochetti's coloured marble statuette of the
Queen, represented as "Queen of Peace". Nadar records that Silvy paid
Marochetti the equivalent of 30,000 francs for this work. It was in all probability
another cast of this model. (see Nadar, Quand j'étais photographe,
Paris, 1900, p.236).
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Portrait statuette (Equestrian)
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Location: |
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1856 |
Height: |
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Depth: |
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Key: |
2186 |
Acc. No.: |
2186 |
Col. No.: |
2186 |
Number of views: |
2490 |
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