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Title:
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George Washington on Horseback
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This bronze statuette is a reduced version, or perhaps a cast from a maquette for the equestrian figure of George Washington, which Marochetti exhibited at the New York Crystal Palace in 1853. The statue occupied a prominent position, under the central rotunda, when the exhibition opened on 14 July 1853, but it was not well received by American critics, who saw in it an attempt to outdo local sculptors. When the exhibition was remodelled by the showman, Phineas T. Barnum, in the following year, it was removed to a more inconspicuous spot, and its place was taken by a fountain with a personification of America. However, one guide to the reconfigured exhibition mentions that "the reduced cast of Marochetti's Washington is better than the colossal statue". (How to see the New Crystal Palace. A Concise Guide to the Principal Objects in the Exhibition as Remodelled , 1854, New York, 1854, p.12)
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Unassigned
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Location: |
Chateau de Cheverny, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1853 |
Height: |
0 metres |
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0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
5766 |
Acc. No.: |
5766 |
Col. No.: |
5766 |
Number of views: |
2588 |
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