Equestrian Statuettes of Louis XIII and Henry IV by Hubert Le Seuer

 

Bronze Equestrian Statuette of Louis XIII (1601 - 1643).

aged between 15 and 20 

by Hubert le Seuer

c.1615 - 20.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 82 cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This statuette cast in Paris before Le Seuer travelled to England is related to Le Seuers statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square and to another of Henri IV in the Vand A - possibly its pendant.

see below.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O312114/louis-xiii-on-horseback-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

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Bronze Equestrian Statuette of Henri IV.

by Hubert le Seuer.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 95cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O308901/henri-iv-on-horseback-trampling-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

 

Equestrian Statues of Louis XIII and Henry IV by Hubert Le Seuer

 

Bronze Equestrian Statue of Louis XIII (1601 - 1643).

aged between 15 and 20 

by Hubert le Seuer

c.1615 - 20.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 82 cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This statuette cast in Paris before Le Seuer travelled to England is related to Le Seuers statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square and to another of Henri IV in the Vand A - possibly its pendant.

see below.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O312114/louis-xiii-on-horseback-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

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Bronze Equestrian Statue of Henri IV.

by Hubert le Seuer.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 95cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O308901/henri-iv-on-horseback-trampling-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

 

Equestrian Statuettes of Louis XIII and Henry IV by Hubert Le Seuer

 

Bronze Equestrian Statuette of Louis XIII (1601 - 1643).

aged between 15 and 20 

by Hubert le Seuer

c.1615 - 20.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 82 cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This statuette cast in Paris before Le Seuer travelled to England is related to Le Seuers statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square and to another of Henri IV in the Vand A - possibly its pendant.

see below.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O312114/louis-xiii-on-horseback-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

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Bronze Equestrian Statuette of Henri IV.

by Hubert le Seuer.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Height 95cms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O308901/henri-iv-on-horseback-trampling-statue-le-sueur-hubert/

 

 

Henri IV on the Pont Neuf, Paris done

 

 

The Bronze Equestrian Statue of Henri IV (1553 - 1610).

on the Pont Neuf, Paris.

 

Originally commissioned from Giamblogna by

Maria di Medici the wife of Henri IV and Regent of France unveiled 3 August 1613.

 

and completed by Pietro Tacca

the Slaves by Pietro Francavilla

Erected 1618.

Destroyed in the revolution in 1792

 

 

 

Mid 19th Century photograph of the 1818 replacement statue

by Francois Frederic Lemot of Henri IV.

 

 

Pont Neuf (New Bridge) Paris.

begun by Guillaume Marchand and finished by Jaques Androuet de Cerceau

 

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Crop from the  above engraving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Engraving by P Brissart

 

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Etching by Jaques Callot c.1629

 

 

 

Drawing by Israel Sylvestre

177 x 430 mm.

British Museum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crop from above

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Isreal Silvestre.

 

 

 

Anon. Pub Georg Merz

 Augsburg c. 1740 - 60.

169 x 200 mm

British Museum 

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Pont Neuf with the statue of Henri IV

From the Original birds Eye View Map by Turgot.

 

 

Birds Eye view by Matthias Merrian

1618.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pont Neuf witrh the statue of Henri IV 

Nicolas Jean Baptist Raguenet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean - Baptiste Lallemand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Royal Collection.