# Study for the Equestrian Statue of Louis XV

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/study-for-the-equestrian-statue-of-louis-xv-r8629e561a53a22>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BOUCHARDON, Edme](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Red chalk, 816 x 630 mm

## Commentary

When the new Place Louis XV was planned in Paris, Bouchardon was given the responsibility for the equestrian statue that the aldermen of Paris had commissioned in 1748. Few monumental works were executed with so much care - hundreds of accomplished drawings exist in the Louvre.

## Related artworks

- [Bust of Philipp Stosch](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/bust-of-philipp-stosch-r421cd82f9f28a1>)
- [Bust of Pope Clement XII](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/bust-of-pope-clement-xii-rcd87e777d1b3f4>)
- [Cardinal Fleury Dying in the Arms of Religion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/cardinal-fleury-dying-in-the-arms-of-religion-r984cb664559fb3>)
- [Cardinal Fleury Dying in the Arms of Religion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/cardinal-fleury-dying-in-the-arms-of-religion-rce98dbd82054c4>)
- [Cupid Making a Bow out of the Club of Hercules](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/cupid-making-a-bow-out-of-the-club-of-hercules-rc1a26904792fce>)
- [Equestrian Statue of Louis XV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/equestrian-statue-of-louis-xv-r59a0f561efa953>)
- [Flagellation of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/flagellation-of-christ-rd541948eded0c0>)
- [Fountain \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/fountain-detail-r2b96caeb2e0463>)
- [Fountain](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouchardon-edme-rbb8d0803fac68d/fountain-r3eb95eaf8e2714>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)