# Monument to Louis XV \(detail: The Citizen\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIGALLE, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Bronze ## Commentary Pigalle received the commission from the city of Reims for the monument to Louis XV, preferred to the aging Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and to Louis-Claude Vassé. Pigalle set his personal seal upon it by including himself on the monument. The emblematic figure of a contented nation was symbolized by a citizen who is a portrait of Pigalle. The Citizen is a powerfully modelled figure, which suggests the influence not of the antique, nor Bernini, but Michelangelo. The figure has a brooding, timeless sense which lifts it out of all associations with the allegorical luggage around it, and with the rest of the monument. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Madame de Pompadour]() - [Bust of Madame de Pompadour]() - [Bust of Voltaire]() - [Bust of Voltaire]() - [Child with a Birdcage]() - [Child with a Birdcage]() - [Child with Birdcage]() - [Madame de Pompadour as Friendship]() - [Madame de Pompadour as Friendship]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe \(detail\)]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe \(detail\)]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()