STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC. 1£9 



placed on borfes made previoufly, one for the fiatue of Ferdi- . , 



nand, Grand Duke of Tufcany, and the other for that of 

 Henry the Second, King of France. 



The liatue of Lewis the Fourteenth, in the Place de Ven- That of 

 dome, is the firfi: that was formed at a fingle cafting fince the {^^^'^^^^ ^{^[^ * 

 revival of the art. It was fuitable to fo great a prince to per- this in a fingle 

 mit his image to be made folely by a grand method ; but Gi-P'"^* 

 rarden and Keller, to whom the work was entrufted, then 

 made their firft attempts, which occafioned many faults, fuch 

 as the cafting it too thick, which in ufelefsly employing more 

 metal, increafed the difficulty of fupporting the coIofTal figure; 

 and fuch alfo as ufing unnecefTary labour; but notwithftand- 

 ing all their precautions, the cafting did not fucceed per- 

 fectly, and conflderable repairs were obliged to be made 

 in it. 



About the fame time were erefled the equeftrian ftatues of Various other 



this prince, at Boufflers and at Lyons, by the fame Girarden, ^'*^"" "'^'^^ '" 



. . ^ic lame way, 



at Rennes by Coizevox, at Monlpelier by Mazeline and 



Utrels, and at Dijon by Le Hongre. 



After this, Le Moine bad to found a ftatue of Lewis the 



Fifteenth at Bourdeaux, which met with great accidents; 



but he had more fuccefs with one at Rennes, which was a 



pedeftrian ftatue : Guibal alfo made one for Nancy. But this 



art did not attain to a great perfe£tion till Boucharden was The art not veryi 



employed to conftruft an equeftrian ftatue of Lewis the ^^f- l"J^^^^f°f^ 



teenth at Paris: The great care of M. Goor prevented any Lewis XV. wa^ 



accident from happening to it, or to that alfo which was caft ^^^* 



at Reims by the fame artift, from the model of Pigale. This 



founder had not the fame fuccefs when he formed the ftatue 



of Frederic the Fifth at Copenhagen, from the model of Saly, 



which required great repairs. Finally, great improvements Great improve- 



had been made in the art when the ftatue of Peter the Great !?''"^' "'^/^^ '" 



the art when the 

 was founded at Peterfburg by Falconet, and neverthelefs he ftatue of Peter 

 was obliged to refound a fecond time the upper half of the ^'^^ ^"^^^^ ^^s 

 flatue. 



The great difadvantage of the method hitherto ufed, is its Difadvantages 

 enormous expence and the great time it requires. It is true, °^'*\^ ^^^^^ 

 that for works which are intended for duration economy is not 

 the chief objed ; but if they can be performed equally well M. Gois's me- 

 by M. Gois's method, at one-half the expence and in a fourth '^?'^ fuperiorto 



It jn various rc- 

 OUpefts. 



