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(Château de Chantilly, Cour de la Capitanerie)

Hommes d'état romains et grecs de l'Antiquité

Roman and Greek Statesmen of Antiquity

Cato, Cicero, Demosthenes and Seneca

artist unknown
Fonderie de Eck et Durand
1886

Chantilly / Hommes d'état romains et grecs de l'Antiquité

Description

On the southeast side of the Cour de la Capitanerie are four oval niches, three of these contain busts, one is empty.

Chantilly - Hommes d'état romains et grecs de l'Antiquité
Caton / Cato the Elder
Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC - 149 BC), Roman senator and historian (Wikipedia).

Démosthène / Demosthenes
Δημοσθένης (384 BC - 322 BC) Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens (Wikipedia).
Chantilly - Hommes d'état romains et grecs de l'Antiquité
Sénèque / Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC - 65 AD), Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist (Wikipedia).
The bust is based on the so-called Pseudo-Seneca (Wikipedia)

Cicéron / Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, Roman consul and constitutionalist (Wikipedia).

Sculptor

Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

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

Locatie (N 49°11'36" - E 2°29'6") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frpi105; Photograph: 16 October 2017
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