Grande Commande

Local nameLe colérique
LocationVersailles, France

The grande commande was a commission ordered by Louis XIV for statues intended to decorate the parterre d’eau of the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, as initially conceived in 1672. The commission, which included 24 statues and four groups, was ordered in 1674. Designed by Charles Le Brun from Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, the statues were executed by the foremost sculptors of the day.

Owing to concerns of the effects of the vertical lines of the statues in relations to the garden façade of the château, the statues of the grande commande were transferred to other locations in the gardens in 1684.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Commande

Address (Unnamed Road), 78000, France

Coordinates 48°48'24.623" N 2°7'15.897" E

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