Wonders of sculpture . Fig. 58.—Riding-Master of Marly.(Paris, Champs-Elysees.) in the Tuileries Garden ; and the latter of thefamous Eciiyers or Chevaux de Marly, now placed atthe entrance to the Champs Elysees. The works con-tained in this room would not alone have earned for FRENCH SCULPTURE. 31 y the Coustous the honour of naming it. On one sidewe have Louis XV^ as Jupiter, in Roman costume,and Queen Maria Leczinska, as Juno ; pretentiousfigures in bad taste, at once feeble and theatrical,. ^o- 59-—Ridin5,-Master of Marly.(Paris, Champs-Klysee.) in the false and ridiculous antique style wh
Wonders of sculpture . Fig. 58.—Riding-Master of Marly.(Paris, Champs-Elysees.) in the Tuileries Garden ; and the latter of thefamous Eciiyers or Chevaux de Marly, now placed atthe entrance to the Champs Elysees. The works con-tained in this room would not alone have earned for FRENCH SCULPTURE. 31 y the Coustous the honour of naming it. On one sidewe have Louis XV^ as Jupiter, in Roman costume,and Queen Maria Leczinska, as Juno ; pretentiousfigures in bad taste, at once feeble and theatrical,. ^o- 59-—Ridin5,-Master of Marly.(Paris, Champs-Klysee.) in the false and ridiculous antique style which wasintroduced on the stage by Lekain and others ofhis dav. On the other side Louis XIV., in rectalmantle, holding his crown and sceptre, but kneeling 320 FliENCH SCULPTURE. and bending forward in the humble attitude of hisVow to the Virgm, like the princes of the LowerEmpire naming the mother of Jesus generalissimoof their armies. The execution of this figurerenders it beautiful, and it is not even spoilt by thestyle. M. Ingres, probably without having seen it,has reproduced it exactly in his picture on thesame subject—the Voiv of Louis XIV. This Coustou room would therefore be nearlyempty, were it not filled with other works, whichappear to me more interesting and allude to the diploma subjects successivelypresented by the members of the Academy ofSculpture on their admission to that body, whichpreceded the Institute of the Fine Arts. They areall little groups of
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