- CountryFrance
- Town:Chantilly
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Year of creation:1899
- Rider(s):Henri d'Orléans
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822 – 1897) was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily being the younger brother of Ferdinand Philippe He distinguished himself during the French invasion of Algeria, where he became Governor-General. After the revolution of 1848, he retired to England. He returned to France on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. He retired from public life in 1883.
- Sculptor(s):Gérôme, Jean-Léon
(1824 – 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was “arguably the world’s most famous living artist by 1880.” The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. Among his sculptures are Omphale (1887) and the statue of the duc d’Aumale which stands in front of the Château de Chantilly (1899).
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