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Mantel clock Marley Horses, decorated with bronze and gilded figure of a young man taming horses. The Horse Tamer marble sculptural group was created in 1740-1745. Guillaume Coustou the Elder (Guillaume Coustou I, 1677-1746) - a famous French sculptor of the first half of the 18th century, who worked on the decoration of the palaces and parks of Versailles, Marly, Tuileries, and Trianon. The sculptures were commissioned by Louis XV in Carrara marble to decorate the terrace of the Château de Marly in the suburbs of Paris. Fed up with tense official images, the royal administration ordered the sculptor figures of naked youths holding back the rearing horses.
Location: Gallery "Antiqon", Brivibas street 52, Riga, Latvia
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Часы каминные Кони Марли
Часы каминные Кони Марли,украшенные бронзовой с позолотой фигурой юноши укрощающей коня. Мраморная скульптурная группа «Укротители коней» была создана в 1740-1745 гг. Гийомом Кусту старшим (Guillaume Coustou I, 1677-1746) - известным французским скульптором первой половины XVIII в., работавшим над убранством дворцов и парков Версаля, Марли, Тюильри и Трианона. Скульптуры были заказаны Людовиком XV из каррарского мрамора для украшения террасы замка Марли в пригороде Парижа. Пресытившись напряженными официальными изображениями, королевская администрация заказала скульптору фигуры обнаженных юношей,сдерживающих вздыбившихся коней.
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