Pierre Lenordez silver-plated bronze sculpture, horse, racing, stallion, saddle, 19th century
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Silver-plated bronze sculpture monogrammed PL for Pierre Lenordez*, representing a beautiful racehorse or slightly agitated stallion, its equipment (saddle and stirrups in particular) on the ground under its legs, the saddle cloth embroidered with a count's crown, from the 19th century.
This sculpture is in good condition. Monogrammed on the base.
Please note: slight silvering in places, some light soiling, scratches and wear from time, see photos.
French sculptor. A professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caen, he specialized in depicting horses that had won major races. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1855 with a waxwork of Baron, a horse from the Imperial Stud Farm in the Bois de Boulogne. He exhibited there four more times until 1877. He created the horse for the Equestrian Statue of Joan of Arc, commissioned by his nephew, Albert Le Nordez, for Montebourg, his hometown. Copies of this statue can be found in the squares of Gandrange (Moselle), Rognonas (Bouches-du-Rhône), Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte-d'Or), La-Chapelle-Saint-Laurent (Deux-Sèvres), Saint-Germain-sur-Moine (Maine-et-Loire), at the summit of the Ballon d'Alsace, at the Château de Marneffe (Belgium), and at the Skikda Museum (Algeria). His knowledge of horses led him to write a work on hippology published in 1886, “The Horse, its conformation and its breeding”.
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