How to make an Equestrian Statue - a helpful video.

 

How to make an Equestrian Statue.

 

Here is a link to the Art History Blog run by the estimable Bendor Grosvenor, art dealer and historian formerly with Philip Mould - Historical Portraits and now an independent based in Edinburgh.

 

http://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/4589_How_to_make_an_equestrian_statue

 

This posting contains a video describing the creation and production of a bronze equestrian statue of Louis XV by Edme Bouchardon.

 

I highly recommend subscribing to his blog and very much admire his no nonsense approach to the Art Market and Art History.

 

I have posted at length on the Bouchardon Equestrian Statue formerly at the Place Louis XV in Paris and destroyed in the revolution on 11 August 1792 at -

 

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/equestrian-statue-of-louis-xv-by_2.html