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Lot 198
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After Guillaume Coustou French, 1677- 1746 Marly Horses late 19th/early 20th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • After Guillaume Coustou
  • bronze
  • height 22 1/2 in.; width 18 1/4 in.
  • 57cm; 46 cm
bronze, greenish brown patina, signed Coustou

Catalogue Note

These are reduced models of the two magnificent Marly Horses by Guillaume Coustou. The pendants were conceived in marble for the horse pond at Louis XIV's Château de Marly (now Louvre, Paris).  Each monumental horse, wild, panicking and restrained by a single man, is one the most iconic images of 18th-century French art.