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Názov:
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Queen Victoria on Horseback - statuette
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Umelec: |
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. One was acquired by the
National Galleries of Scotland in 1991. The cast illustrated here 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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Materiál: |
Bronze
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Zakončenie: |
Unassigned |
Leštidlo: |
- |
Technika: |
Cast |
Štýl: |
Portrait statuette (Equestrian)
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Umiestnenie: |
Musée Girodet, Montargis, , ,
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Farby: |
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Rok: |
1856 |
Výška: |
0.64 metres |
Šírka: |
0.56 metres |
Hĺbka: |
0.18 metres |
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Kľúč: |
2187 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2187 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2187 |
Počet Videní: |
2618 |
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