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Názov:
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Monument to Charles Philippe Henri de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy
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Umelec: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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Known now only from old postcards, since the bronze was melted down by the Vichy government between 1942 and 1944, this monument was inaugurated in the Place de la Gare in Mouy (Oise) on 20 September 1857. It commemorates Charles Philippe Henri de Noailles, duc de Mouchy (1808-1854). The commission seems to have come from the town of Mouy. On the 5 Feb. 1857, Marochetti wrote to the Duchess, expressing his gratitude: "I am quite surprised that you should be thanking me, since it is I who owe you a debt of gratitude. I have not often had in my life as an artist so favourable an occasion, and without your benevolence towards me.........the town of Mouy would never have thought of coming to me" (letter in the collection of the Noailles family).
In August 1857 Marochetti wrote again to the Duchess, regretting his inability to respond to an earlier invitation, and saying that he would be coming on the following Saturday, and would then not fail "to profit from the seductive hospitality that you are so kind as to offer me". His wife, however, would be unable to come, since she was about to go to Italy to visit their two sons. Possibly the purpose of this visit was to check on the construction of the monument.
It appears from a further letter, addressed to the Duc de Mouchy on 15 October 1863, that Marochetti supplied another copy of the bust to the family. He says that he had sent the bust of the duke's father from London, via Dieppe, before himself leaving for France, and gives careful instructions about how the case should be opened, which suggests that the bust was in marble. He regretted having been unable to execute the bust from the life. "I have done what I could, but it is only a souvenir, and I regret not being able to give something better when the chance offered to do something precious for you and for all those who knew and loved him". The letter is addressed from Vaux, from where he is intending to return to England, and says that he will not fail to "go and establish for myself that the case has arrived in good order".
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Materiál: |
Bronze
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Zakončenie: |
Unassigned |
Leštidlo: |
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Technika: |
Cast |
Štýl: |
Portrait Bust
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Farby: |
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Rok: |
1857 |
Výška: |
0 metres |
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0 metres |
Hĺbka: |
0 metres |
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Kľúč: |
2683 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2683 |
Katalógové číslo: |
2683 |
Počet Videní: |
2574 |
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