Louis XIV

The present equestrian statue of Louis XIV in Versailles was commissioned in 1816 for the Place de la Concorde in Paris, and was designed by Pierre Cartellier. At the time of Cartellier’s death of in 1831, only the horse – originally designed for an equestrian statue of Louis XV – had been completed. The rider is the work of his son-in-law Louis Petitot. The proportions of the horse and the king are slightly different. The statue was erected in the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles in 1837. It was dismantled in 2006 in connection with the reconstruction of parts of the palace and gardens, and re-sited in 2009 on the Place d’Armes in front of the palace. 

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