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Amélie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach

Gent 1830 - Walferdange 1872
wife of prince Henry of the Netherlands, Governor of Luxembourg 1850-1879
(Wikipedia)

Charles Pêtre
Thiébaut (Paris)
1876

Luxembourg / Amélie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach

Description

Bronze statue. In a half circle around the statue is a stone bench, with the names of Luxembourgian towns inscribed in the back: capellen, clervaux, diekirch, echternach, esch-alz, grevenmacher, luxembourg, mersch, redange, remich, vianden, wiltz

Inscription(s)

a
la princesse
henry des pays-bas
1830-1872

souscription nationale
MDCCCLXXVI

Signed: ch. pêtre 1876
F^du par thiebaut & fils

Sculptor

Charles Pêtre, or Pètre (Metz 1828 - 1907), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Fanny Beck, Princesse Amélie. Ons stad 58 (1998), 17-19 (PDF on-line).
Emerentia van Heuven-van Nes et al. (red.), Monumenten voor Nassau en Oranje (Rotterdam 2004), nr. 40.

Locatie (N 49°36'50" - E 6°7'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: lu036; Photograph: 16 June 2011
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