Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803) Landscape... - Lot 41 - Maison R&C, Commissaires-Priseurs Associés

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Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803) Landscape... - Lot 41 - Maison R&C, Commissaires-Priseurs Associés
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803) Landscape of animated ruins, with a free quotation of the statue of "Louis XIV victorious of the Four Nations", of the Place des Victoires. Gouache on paper. 300 x 435 mm. The Place des Victoires has a singular genesis since it was wanted by François, viscount of Aubusson, duke of La Feuillade (1625-1691), in order to celebrate the end of the Dutch war and the victory of the French army concluded by the peace treaty of Nijmegen (1678-1679). As Marshal of France, he paid humble and virtuous homage to his sovereign with a monument demonstrating the overwhelming superiority of the kingdom of France and making an act of charity by creating a square for the city of Paris. This is the first square created by a private individual to celebrate his sovereign. Inaugurated in 1686, it was the site of a monument of great importance highlighting the political, military and artistic power of the king, executed by Martin Van den Bogaert, known as Martin Desjardins. A Dutch-born artist admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (1671), he created a bronze pedestrian statue of the king crowned by Victory, on a pedestal decorated with bas-reliefs and flanked by four bronze figures of captives embodying the various powers subjugated by the royal army. Of these works, which were melted down (for the bronzes) and destroyed during the Revolution, only the captives and the bas-reliefs and medallions remain, and can be seen in the Louvre.
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