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The Marly
Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou, showing two rearing horses with their
groom. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for
the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly.
Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted
groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both
by Antoine Coysevox, which
had been removed to the Tuileries Gardens in 1719.
Louis XV chose
the modellos in 1743 and the full-size sculptures were
completed in only two years, being installed at Marly in 1745. They proved
highly successful in reproduction, particularly on a smaller scale, and
prefigured Théodore Géricault and
other Romantic artists' obsession with
equestrian subjects. They were later also used as the central motif in
the RTF test
card.
The originals
were moved to the place de la Concorde in
Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868)
restored them in 1840. In 1984 it was concluded that the annual military
parades on 14 July were damaging the sculptures and they were replaced by
marble copies produced by Michel Bourbon in the studio of a subsidiary of
Bouygues. The latter also gained the right to an extra copy, which was placed
in Bouygues Construction's
social building. The original sculptures were moved to a former courtyard in
the Richelieu wing of the Louvre Museum, which was renamed the “cour Marly” in their
honour, whilst Bourbon's two main copies were moved to the originals' first
site near the trough at Marly, with work overseen by the architect Serge Macel.
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