This video, "Casting a Monument to Louis XV", illustrates the complex, 15-year process of bronze casting used by Edme Bouchardon to create a huge statue of him riding a horse. The 18th-century statue stood in the Place de la Concorde in Paris until the French Revolution when it was dismantled. The casting process included making a mold, creating a wax model, building an iron framework, and then utilizing 30 tons of bronze. A joint production between the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the video was made to accompany the exhibition "Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment."
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