Louis XIV, model c. 1683/1699, cast c. 1699

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G12

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (with base): 56.6 x 21.9 x 40 cm (22 5/16 x 8 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
accessory size: 11.7 x 19.3 x 39.3 cm (4 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
gross weight (sculpture): 33.000 lb
gross weight (support): 10.000 lb

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1971.5.2

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (sculptor)

Martin Desjardins (artist after) Dutch, c. 1640 - 1694

Image Use

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Provenance

Utheman collection, Geneva; sold 1969 through (Jacques Kugel, Paris) to (Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York);[1] purchased 5 March 1971 by NGA.

[1] See letter from Charles Parkhurst dated 14 February 1974.

Associated Names

Hall Fine Arts, Michael
Kugel, Jacques
Utheman

Exhibition History

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, no. VII, as Louis XIV on Horseback, Attributed to François Girardon.

1981: Glorious Horsemen: Equestrian Art in Europe 1500-1800, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts; The J.B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, 1981-1982, no. 75, repro.

Bibliography

1974: Lewis, Douglas. "Two Equestrian Statuettes after Martin Desjardins." Studies in the History of Art vol. 6 (1974):142-155, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 640, no. 1008, repro., as Louis XIV, "The Sun King".

1986: Seelig, Lorenz. "Eine Reiterstatuette Kurfürst Max Emanuels von Bayern aus dem Jahr 1699." Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums (1986):65-67, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 74, repro.