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Marly Horse, Important Bronze After Guillaume Coustou
Cheval de Marly, important bronze sculpture with original brown patina, signed on the terrace, presented on its old wooden base covered with red velvet, beautiful old cast of the nineteenth century. The Marly Horses are two sculpted groups representing rearing horses and their grooms in Carrara marble. They were commissioned in 1739 by Louis XV to the sculptor Guillaume COUSTOU (1677-1746) to decorate the entrance of the Château de Marly park. The models are chosen by the king in 1743 and settled in Marly in 1745. In 1794 they are transferred to Place de la Concorde and replaced by reconstituted marble copies made by Michel Bourbon in 1984. The originals are kept in the Louvre Museum.
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