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Guillaume II Grand-duc de Luxembourg

William II, Grand-Duke of Luxembourg

Den Haag 1792 - Tilburg 1849
King of the Netherlands and Grand-Duke of Luxembourg, 1840-1849
(Wikipedia)

Antonin Mercié & Victor Peter
Benon et Cie
1884

Luxembourg / Guillaume II Grand-duc de Luxembourg

Description

Equestrian statue of the King/Grand-Duke on his horse Wexy. It is placed on a high pedestal richy adorned with a bronze text cartouche (front), the bronze coats-of-arms the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (left), the Netherlands (right), and on the four sides the coats-ofarms of the Luxembourgian towns:

(back) luxemburg, diekirch

(left) esch s.A., vianden, echternach, wiltz

(right) capellen, redange, grevenmacher, clervaux

(back) mersch, remich Around the statue is an iron fence with the King's monogram and the dates 1841 and 1848.

Inscription(s)

Au Roi
Grand-Duc
GUILLAUME II
Le Luxembourg
Reconnaissant
1884

Signed: A. Mercié et Peter
Benon et C^ie Fondeurs
(pedestal) L. Ginain Arch^te.

Annotation

A copy of this equestrian statue is in The Hague (see here).

Sculptors

Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (Toulouse 1845 - Paris 1916), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Victor Peter (1840-1918), French sculptor.

Sources & Information

Emerentia van Heuven-van Nes et al. (red.), Monumenten voor Nassau en Oranje (Rotterdam 2004), nr. 45.
Kees van Tilburg, From Marcus Aurelius to Kim Jong-il: The story of equestrian statues throughout the ages (Amstelveen, 2017). – see also the Equestrian statue website.

Locatie (N 49°36'37" - E 6°7'53") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: lu006; Photograph: 16 June 2011
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