Small Iron Equestrian Statuette at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Equestrian Statuette of Gottfried Leygebe (Liegebe).

Cast and Chiseled steel.

c.1659 - 60.

Rosenborg Castle.

Copenhagen. Denmark.

see - http://www.rdklabor.de/wiki/Eisenschnitt

height approx 17cms.

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Electrotype by Elkington in the V and A.

Jaques Saly and the Equestrian Statue of Frederick V,Copenhagen

The Bronze Equestrian Statue of Frederick V,

at the Amalienborg Palace,

Copenhagen

Jaques Francois Joseph Saly (1717 -76).

1768.
Cast 2nd March 1768 by Pierre Gors and unveiled 7 July 1771.

Height 12 metres.

Saly published two reports on his statue: 

Jacques François Joseph Saly, Description de la statue équestre que la Compagnie des Indes Orientales de Dannemarc a consacrée à la gloire de Frédéric V, København 1771 

and Jacques François Joseph Saly, Suite de la description du monument consacré à Frédéric V par la compagnie des Indes de Dannemarc, København, 1773.

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Proposal for a monument with fountain of Frederick V for the Amalienberg Square.

Marcus Tuscher (1705 - 51).

Pencil pen and grey wash 355 x 472 mm

1750

Equestrian Statue of Frederick V

Amalienborg Palace

Copenhagen

Engraving - Johan Martin Priesler

Saly 

1768

The Royal Library, Copenhagen. Müllers Pinakothek 6, 34, fol plus 

(photograph © The Royal Library, Copenhagen)

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 The Royal Square of Amalienborg with Saly's equestrian statue of Frederick V and Nicholas-Henri Jardin's project for Frederick's Church,

Johan Martin Preisler (after drawing by L.A. Le Clerck), 
1766, 
Folio (photograph provided by Danish National Art Library)

Text and illustrations above from

http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2011/2011-jan-mar/kragelund-abildgaard-and-schadow

see previous blog entry.

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For the 1997 - 2011 restoration of the statue see -

https://www.apmollerfonde.dk/projekter/rytterstatuen.aspx

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Jaques Francois Joseph Saly (1717 -76).

For a very useful brief biog of Saly see -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Saly

Saly was born in Valenciennes to Francois Marie Saly and his wife Marie Michelle.

After studying with Guillaume Coustou in Paris, in 1738 Saly won the first prize for sculpture and at the end of 1740 went to the French Academy in Rome where he worked with Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. He got to know Piranesi who had just arrived from Venice whose passion for Roman antiquities he admired.

His Vases, produced in 1746 and dedicated to the De Troy, director of French Academy, show the strong influence of Piranesi. On his return to France in 1751 he was admitted to Académie Royale.

However Saly interpreted the Classical / Rococo in a very personal manner merging the classical art of this contemporaries with the renaissance tradition of the “grotesque” in which vegetables, animals and marine deities blend elegantly and harmoniously. 

see - http://www.stanzadelborgo.it/scheda/475/en/vasa-a-se-inventa-atque-studii-causa-delin-et-incisa

These prints are the most fantastic and inventive etching of the time in the tradition which began in the 16th century with Enea Vico, 

In 1753 left for Copenhagen to work there for the Royal Family. When he returned to France he was given a studio at the Louvre.

Portrait of Saly.
With the statue of Frederick V behind him.

Jens Juel (1745 - 1802).

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Early plastercast of the horse for the Equestrian Statue of Frederick V by Saly

see  -    http://bibliotek.science.ku.dk/life150/fra_veterinaerskole/salyshestestatue/

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Plaster in the Academie Royale de San Fernando Madrid
Photograph - Luis Garcia.

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Works by Jaques Saly

Hebe as cup bearer, terracotta Hermitage, St Peterburg, 1763.

Marble Statue of Hebe

Saly

97cms

St Peterburg.

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Bust of Young Girl

c.1750 - 55

total height 52 cms

Sold Sotheby's Paris 7 November 2013.

Much reproduced.

Bronze Bust

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Marble Victoria and Albert Museum

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Antoine Joseph Pater (1670 - 1747)

b. Valenciennes

Sculptor - Master of Saly

by Saly

terracotta

Valenciennes

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Engraving by Johann Martin Preisler

of a bust of Joachim Wassersclebe carved by Jaques Saly

Image - Statens Museum fur Kunst, Denmark.

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Frederick V

Jaques Saly

Terracotta

Statens Museum for Kunst

101.5 cms

c.1760

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Images above British Museum

Equestrian Statue Gustav II, Pierre Hubert Archeveque, Stockholm

The Equestrian Statue of Gustav II (1594 -1632).

Pierre Hubert Archeveque, (1721 - 78).

Stockholm.

The statues and base were created by Johan Tobias Sergel (1745 - 1814)
for an interesting article on Sergel see -

http://nationalmuseum.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:724883/FULLTEXT01.pdf


Erected Gustav Adolf Square Stockholm in 1796

The Model in the National Museum Stockholm

Bronze 96 cms tall

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Plaster version of the Equestrian Statue of Gustav II.

47 cms

Sold by Bukowski's Auction House, Stockholm

from - https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/574/149-pierre-hubert-l-archeveque-king-gustav-ii-adolf

Literature - Johan Cederlund, "Skulptören Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque 1721-1778", compare illustration p. 103 (plaster modell at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm Sweden, no NM Sk 450). Chapter 6 discloses the creation of the statue.


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Johann Gottfried Schadow, drawing showing Sergel's project for the statues placed on the pedestal of the statue of King Gustavus Adolphus, 1791, 

pen and grey wash, 48,8 x 27,2 cm, with Schadow's own annotation. 
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, inv. no. 779. 

Here reprod. from Hans Mackowsky, Johann Gottfried Schadow: Jugend und Aufstieg 1764-1797, Berlin 1927, pl. 61 (photograph provided by Danish National Art Library).

For a really useful introduction to the sculptor Schadow including information on the three major 18th century Equestrian Statues in Scandinavia and Russia see

Patrick Kragelund, "'Man müsse keine Statue Equestre machen': Abildgaard and Schadow in Copenhagen 1791," in: RIHA Journal 0019 (21 March 2011) - available at -

http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2011/2011-jan-mar/kragelund-abildgaard-and-schadow

Info. above reproduced from this website. 

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Detail of the bronze rondels on the base of the equestrian statue of Gustav II _____________________________________



Johan Martin Preisler, Saly's equestrian statue of Frederick V at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, 1770, double folio. 
The Royal Library, Copenhagen. Müllers Pinakothek 6, 34, fol plus 

(photograph © The Royal Library, Copenhagen)

info above from -

http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2011/2011-jan-mar/kragelund-abildgaard-and-schadow

A general on Horseback - Hubert Le Sueur - with Tomasso Brothers

An  Equestrian Bronze Statuette of  a General on Horseback - 

Hubert Le Sueur - 

with The Tomasso Brothers 2009.

21.5 cms

This unpublished statuette is an interesting addition to the growing catalogue of work byHubert Le Sueur, court sculptor – as he himself boasted – to two kings, Louis XIII of France and Charles I of England and Scotland. Unfortunately, it has no meaningful provenance and the identity of the armoured rider is unknown.

The horse, the saddle and the armoured body are identical to those of two other casts which have the heads of King Louis XIII as a youth and of King Philip of Spain, both now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, nos. A.1–1994 and A.108-1956. Of these, the former has Le Sueur’s name stamped on the girth, and this was crucial for establishing his authorship not just of these small equestrian figures, but of a much larger pair also in the Victoria andAlbert Museum (inv. nos. A. 47 and A 49–1951). One of the latter shows Louis XIII on a virtually identical mount, though the larger scale has permitted more modelling of detail.There is also a bronze of Charles I on a steed leaping above a crouching, defeated foe,which has come to light more recently (inv. no. A.1–1992; see Bresc-Bautier and Scherf 2009,pp. 176–77, no. 44, with earlier literature).

Exhibitions : SCULTURA II - 15 - 24 OCTOBER 2009, Catalogue no. 12, Williams Moretti & Irving, 24 East 80th Street, New York, 10075.

Literature:

C. Avery, ‘Hubert le Sueur’s Portraits of King Charles I in Bronze: At Stourhead, Ickworth and Elsewhere’, National Trust Studies, 1979, p. 143; reprinted in C. Avery, Studies in European Sculpture, vol. I, London 1981, pp. 201–o2

C. Avery, ‘Hubert Le Sueur, “The Unworthy Praxiteles” of King Charles I’, The Walpole Society, 1982,pp. 135–209; reprinted in C. Avery, Studies in European Sculpture, vol. II, London 1988, pp. 145–235

G. Bresc-Bautier and G. Scherf, eds., Cast in Bronze, French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution (French edn Bronzes Français de la Renaissance au Siècle les Lumières), exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pp. 178–79, no. 45

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Photograph and text above from -

http://www.tomassobrothers.co.uk/PrintObjectPDF.aspx?objectid=229191&dealerid=12486

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For a brief account of the life of Le Sueur see - http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/lesueur.htm

Whilst mostly devoted to 19th century sculpture - this is an excellent website and should be visited by anyone with an interest in English sculpture.

Engravings of Charles II Equestrian and Otherwise.

 

 

Charles II.

 

 

The Equestrian Statue of Charles II. at Edinburgh

Anonymous

Engraving

362 x 206 mm.

 

British Museum

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Charles II.
Engraving
Pierre Mariette
Pub. Paris c. 1700.
390 x 272 mm.
British Museum

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Charles II
Engraving
Pieter Stevens
Pub. Nicholas Vischer
One of a set of 19 equestrian portraits

233 x 156 mm.

British Museum
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Charles II
Engraving.
Pub. R Thomson.
266 x 205 mm.
British Museum
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Charles II,
in procession with Westminster Abbey in the background.
Engraving
483 x 409 mm
c.1660
British Museum

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Wenceslaus Hollar

1667.

British Museum

 

 

 

 

Crop from above engraving

 

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Charles II.

Anonymous sculptor.

Pearwood

Height 16.5 cms

Late 17th Century

 

British Museum

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Charles II

Mezzotint

1731

British Museum

 

 

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Charles II

Engraving Anon

117 x 63 mm.

 

British Museum.

 

 

 

 

Charles II

van Somer

Mezzotint

320 x 245 mm.

British Museum.

 

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Charles II

Anon

Mezzotint

91 x 79 mm.

 

British Museum.