13.75 x 12.63 x 5.5 cm. (5.4 x 5 x 2.2 in.) S. A. Callisen, "The Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV in Dijon and Related Monuments", The Art Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 2 (Jun. 1941), pp. 131-140. F. Souchal, ...

The scaffolding enclosing the imposing equestrian statue of Louis XIV erected on the Place d'Armes in front of the château had just been dismantled after a studious polishing of the bronze.

Back in the 1700s when Frederik V ruled over the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, any absolute monarch worth his weight knew he needed an equestrian statue to demonstrate his power. Frederik wanted a ...

The mould was also soon lost. It is interesting to note that some 200 years later when a huge equestrian statue of Louis XIV was constructed in Paris in 1699, the moulding and casting process used was ...

In 1792 a statue of Louis XIV on horseback, which was the centerpiece of the square, was torn down. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805, a stone column — supported in a ...