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Huit bustes antiques

Eight Antique Busts

Jaboeuf & Cie (Paris)
1896

Description

Eight busts in niches in the façades of the Château de Chantilly. It are copies of antiques busts found in the Louvre.

Facing the Cour d'Honneur Left of the Tour du Connétable

Chantilly - Huit bustes antiques
Agrippa
(Agrippa Gabies)
Roman consul, statesman, general and architect (Wikipedia).

Diomède / Diomedes
Hero in Greek mythology (Wikipedia).

Unknown

Unknown

Between the Tour du Connétable and the Tour Senlis Facing the Parterre de la Volière

Chantilly - Huit bustes antiques
Démosthène / Demosthenes
Δημοσθένης (384 BC - 322 BC) Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens (Wikipedia).

Hercule jeune / Young Hercules
(Ἡρακλῆς), Latin: Hercules, divine hero in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Alcmene (Wikipedia).
Chantilly - Huit bustes antiques
Unknown

Unknown

NB The Joconde database gives as sculptor 'Robert A. Jaboeuf' who does not occur elsewhere on the internet.

Sources & Information

Joconde, Portail des collections des musées de France, Accueil.

Locatie (N 49°11'38" - E 2°29'9") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frpi092; Photograph: 16 October 2017
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