List of equestrian statues in France explained
This is a list of equestrian statues in France. In each region, statues are ranked by chronological order of first erection in the listed location.
Paris and Ile-de-France
Paris
- Henri IV on the Pont Neuf, by François-Frédéric Lemot (1818) replacing destroyed predecessor of 1614
- Louis XIII on Place des Vosges, by Charles Dupaty and Jean-Pierre Cortot (1825), marble replacing destroyed bronze predecessor of 1639
- Louis XIV on Place des Victoires, by François Joseph Bosio (1828)
- Joan of Arc on Rue de Rivoli, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1874, reworked in 1899)
- Genius of Arts on the Louvre Palace façade facing the Seine, by Antonin Mercié (1877) replacing a bas-relief of Napoleon III by Antoine-Louis Barye (1869) deposed on 6 September 1870 and now at the Château de Compiègne[1] [2]
- Charlemagne et ses Leudes in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, by the brothers Louis and Charles Rochet (1878), erected in 1882
- Etienne Marcel besides the Hôtel de Ville, by Antonin Idrac and Laurent Marqueste (1888)
- The Poet astride Pegasus near, by Alexandre Falguière (1897)
- Joan of Arc in front of Saint-Augustin, by Paul Dubois (1895), erected in 1900
- George Washington on Place d'Iéna, by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter (1900)
- Gladiator by Isidore Bonheur (1902), erected in Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in 1942
- Lafayette on the Cours-la-Reine, by Paul Wayland Bartlett (1908), relocated from the Louvre in 1984; a copy was erected in 2017 at the in Versailles
- Edward VII on, by Paul Landowski (1913)
- Saint Louis and Joan of Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, by Hippolyte Lefèbvre (1927)
- Simón Bolívar on the Cours-la-Reine, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1930), new cast of 1910 original in Bogotá, relocated to current site in 1980
- La France renaissante on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, by (1930)
- Alexander I of Yugoslavia at La Muette, by Maxime Real del Sarte (1936)
- Albert I of Belgium near the Place de la Concorde, by (1938)
- Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire, by Maxime Real del Sarte (1939)
- Ferdinand Foch facing the Trocadéro, by and (1951)
- José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris, by Louis-Joseph Daumas (1960), new cast of 1862 original in Buenos Aires
- Louis XIV in front of Louvre Pyramid, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1988), cast in lead of the 1670s marble original kept at Versailles
Ile-de-France
- Marble statue of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1670s); now replaced by a copy at the end of the
- Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), initially erected near Djamaa el Djedid in Algiers and relocated in 1981[3]
- Louis XIV in front of the Palace of Versailles, by Pierre Cartellier and Louis Petitot (1837), originally intended for the Place de la Concorde; repositioned in 2009
- Napoleon at Montereau-Fault-Yonne, by (1867)
- Anne de Montmorency at the Château de Chantilly, by Paul Dubois (1886)
- Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale in front of the Château de Chantilly, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1899)
- John Pershing at the in Versailles, by (designed in 1937, completed 2017)
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Louis XIV on Place Bellecour in Lyon, by François-Frédéric Lemot (1826), replacing destroyed predecessor of 1713
- Napoleon on the Prairie de la Rencontre in Laffrey, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1868), originally erected in Grenoble, warehoused in 1870 and re-erected at present site in 1929
- Philis de La Charce at the jardins des Dauphins in Grenoble, by (1900)
- Vercingetorix on Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand, by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1903)
- Joan of Arc in Saint-Étienne, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1916), new cast of the Paris version
- Joan of Arc in Lyon, by (1928)
- Sur les Talons in Briançon, by Gari (2016)
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bretagne
Centre-Val-de-Loire
Corse
Grand Est
- Louis XIII on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville in Reims, by (1818), stone replacement of destroyed bronze predecessor of 1624
- René II, Duke of Lorraine at, Nancy, by Mathias Schiff (1883)
- Joan of Arc at Place Jeanne D'Arc, Nancy, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1889), reworked from the earlier Paris version
- Le Veneur in front of in Épernay, by Pierre Le Nordez (1890)
- Antoine de Lasalle in Lunéville, by (1892)
- Joan of Arc at Place du Parvis, Reims, by Paul Dubois (1896), new cast of the Paris version, erected in 1900
- Joan of Arc in Mirecourt, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1903), new cast of the Paris version
- Joan of Arc at the Ballon d'Alsace, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1906), new cast of the Montebourg version
- Joan of Arc in Strasbourg, by Paul Dubois (1897), new cast of the Paris version first erected in front of the Palais du Rhin in 1920, relocated to present site in 1965
- Joan of Arc in Gandrange, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1921), new cast of the Montebourg version
- Joan of Arc in the military cemetery of Plaine, by Xavier Obert (1924)
- Joan of Arc in Bischoffsheim, by Paul Brutschi (1924)
- Joan of Arc in Marlenheim, by Alois Ruscher (1948)
- Joan of Arc in Vaucouleurs, by Georges Halbout (1951), initially erected near the Grande Poste in Algiers and relocated in 1966
- Lafayette in Metz, by (2004), replacing a recast of Bartlett's Paris statue erected in 1920 and destroyed by German occupation forces in World War II
Hauts-de-France
- Louis I, Duke of Orléans in the Château de Pierrefonds, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1869)
- Louis Faidherbe in Lille, by Antonin Mercié (1896)
- José de San Martín in Boulogne-sur-Mer, by (1909)
- Joan of Arc in Lille, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1912), new cast of the Paris version, stolen in 1918 and replaced in 1925
- Claude Louis Hector de Villars in Denain, by (1913), destroyed in 1918 and recast in 1922
- Joan of Arc in Compiègne, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1930), new cast of the Paris version
- Ferdinand Foch in Cassel, by Georges Malissard (1928)
- Douglas Haig in Montreuil-sur-Mer, by Paul Landowski (1931), melted by German occupation forces in 1940 and recast in 1950
- Ferdinand Foch in Lille, by Edgar-Henri Boutry (1936)
Normandie
- William the Conqueror in Falaise, by the brothers Louis and Charles Rochet (1851)
- Napoleon in Cherbourg-Octeville, by Armand Le Véel (1858)
- Napoleon in Rouen, by (1865)
- Joan of Arc in Montebourg, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1899)
- Bertrand du Guesclin in Caen, by (1905)
- Joan of Arc in Caen, by (1931), initially erected in Oran and relocated in 1964
- Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans at the Château d'Eu, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), second cast of the version now in Neuilly-sur-Seine, initially erected in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre in Paris, relocated to Versailles in 1848[4] and to the present location in 1971
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitanie
Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
Disappeared statues
- Clovis, Dagobert, and Rudolf of Habsburg on the façade of Strasbourg Cathedral, late 13th or early 14th century,[5] destroyed in December 1793[6]
- Philip IV the Fair inside Notre-Dame de Paris, wood (14th century), destroyed in the early 1790s
- Charles VII above the entrance of the Palais Jacques Coeur in Bourges (c.1450), destroyed in 1792
- Louis XII above the entrance of the Château de Blois, by Guido Mazzoni (1507), destroyed in 1792
- Duke Antoine of Lorraine above the entrance of the Palais ducal in Nancy, by (1512), destroyed in 1792
- Henry IV on the Pont Neuf in Paris, by Giambologna and Pietro Tacca (1611), erected in 1614 and destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIII on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville in Reims, by Nicolas Jacques (1624), destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIII on Place Royale, now Place des Vosges in Paris, by Daniele da Volterra and Pierre II Biard (1639), destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIV on Place Royale, now in Dijon, by Étienne Le Hongre (1690), erected in 1750 and destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIV on Place Louis-le-Grand, now Place Vendôme in Paris, by François Girardon (1699), destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIV on Place Bellecour in Lyon, by Martin Desjardins (late 17th century), erected in 1713 and destroyed in 1793
- Louis XIV on the in Montpellier, by and (1692), erected in 1718 and destroyed in 1792
- Louis XIV on Place Royale, now in Rennes, by Antoine Coysevox (1693), initially intended for Nantes, erected in 1726 and destroyed in 1793
- Louis XV on Place Royale, now Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, erected in 1743 and destroyed on
- Louis XV on Place Louis XV, now Place de la Concorde in Paris, by Edmé Bouchardon and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1763), destroyed in 1792
- Napoleon I on Place Napoléon, now Place Carnot in Lyon, by Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1852), destroyed in 1870-71
- Diego Velázquez on the Place du Louvre in Paris, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1892), relocated to the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in the mid-1930s and destroyed during the Spanish Civil War[7]
- Emperor William I on the in Metz, by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller (1892), destroyed in 1918
- Emperor Frederick III on Kaiserplatz, now in Metz, by Franz Dorrenbach (1909), destroyed in 1918
- Emperor William I on Kaiserplatz, now Place de la République in Strasbourg (1911), destroyed in 1918
See also
Notes and References
- Les esquisses de la décoration du Louvre au Département des sculptures . Michèle Beaulieu . 1946 . Bulletin Monumental . 104.
- Web site: À nos Grands Hommes - Collection France Debuisson / Musée d'Orsay . Monument à Napoléon III.
- Web site: Narratives and Representations of the French Settlers of Algeria: An AHRC Project at the University of Stirling . From Algiers to Neuilly: The Duc d'Orléans Statue . Beatrice Ivey . .
- Book: Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1870: Revised and Verified by Personal Inspection, and Arranged on an Entirely New Plan . A. and W. Galignani and Co . Paris . 1870 . 160.
- Web site: Strasbourg . Les Strasbourgeois et leur cathédrale .
- Web site: Fondation Oeuvre Notre-Dame . 1789 à 1870 : Dégâts de la Révolution et restaurations.
- Web site: e-monumen.net . Monument à Diego Velasquez – Madrid (détruit et remplacé) . Dominique Perchet . 12 April 2012.
