Lafayette Monument | |
---|---|
Artist | Paul Wayland Bartlett's (1865-1925) |
Year | 1924 |
Medium | Bronze |
Dimensions | 490 cm× 240 cm× 490 cm(192 in× 96 in× 192 in) |
Location | Baltimore, Maryland |
39°17′49.92″N76°36′56.3″W / 39.2972000°N 76.615639°W | |
Owner | City of Baltimore |
The Lafayette Monument is a bronze equestrian statue of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, by Andrew O'Connor, Jr.
It is located on the northern edge of the South Park, at Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, directly across a cobblestone circle from The Washington Monument. It was dedicated on September 6, 1924, with President Calvin Coolidge in attendance. [1] [2]
The inscription reads:
(Sculpture, front edge, proper left side:)
ANDREW O'CONNOR
1924
(Sculpture, rear proper left side:)
T. F. MCGANN & SONS CO FOUNDRY
BOSTON MASS
(Base, front:)
(Base, east side:)
AVEC DES VOLONTIERS FRANCAIS
EST VENU APPORTER UNE AIDE FRATERNELLE
AU PEUPLE AMERICAIN
QUI COMBATTAIT POUR SA LIBERTE NATIONALE
EN 1917
LA FRANCE COMBATTAIT A SON TOUR
POURDEFENDRE
SAVIE
ET LA LIBERTE DU MONDE. L'AMERIQUE QUI
N'AVAIT JAMAIS OUBLIE LA FAYETTE A
TRAVERSE LES MERS POUR AIDER LA FRANCE
ET LE MONDE A ETE SAUVE
(Base, west side:)
LA FAYETTE IMMORTAL
BECAUSE A SELF-FORGETFUL SERVANT OF
JUSTICE AND HUMANITY
BELOVED BY ALL AMERICANS
BECAUSE HE ACKNOWLEDGED NO DUTY MORE
SACRED THAN TO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM
OF HIS FELLOW-MEN.
WOODROW WILSON.
signed Founder's mark appears.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié, was a French sculptor, medallist and painter.
La Fayette is a general purpose stealth frigate of the French Navy. She is the second French vessel named after the 18th century general Marquis de Lafayette. She is the lead ship of the class.
Hans K. Schuler was a German-born American sculptor and monument maker. He was the first American sculptor to win the Salon Gold Medal. His works are in several important museum collections, and he also created many public monuments, mostly for locations in Baltimore, Maryland and in the Washington, D.C. area. For over a quarter of a century he served as president of the Maryland Institute College of Art.
The Washington Monument is the centerpiece of intersecting Mount Vernon Place and Washington Place, an urban square in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first major monument to honor George Washington (1732–1799).
The July Column is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, King of the French. It was built between 1835 and 1840.
Paul Moreau-Vauthier was a French sculptor.
Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne de La Fayette. He was named in honor of George Washington, under whom his father served in the Revolutionary War.
Andrew O'Connor was an American-Irish sculptor whose work is represented in museums in America, Ireland, Britain and France.
The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue is a public artwork by Leo Lentelli, located at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, 16th Street and Park Road Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Francis Asbury, also known as the Francis Asbury Memorial, is a public equestrian statue, by American artist Henry Augustus Lukeman, located at 16th Street and Mt. Pleasant Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette is a statue in the southeast corner of Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C., near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, across the street from the White House. The statue was erected in 1891 to honor Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and his contributions in the American Revolutionary War. The square, originally part of the President's Park, was named in honor of the Marquis in 1824 during a visit he made to the U.S. The statuary was made by Alexandre Falguière and Antonin Mercié, and the architect who designed the marble pedestal was Paul Pujol. The monument comprises a bronze statue of the Marquis de Lafayette about 11 ft (3.4 m) high, standing on a French marble pedestal with four faces decorated with classical mouldings, accompanied by seven additional bronze statues, all larger than life size.
Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau is a bronze statue honoring Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping the Thirteen Colonies win independence during the American Revolutionary War. Rochambeau joined the French military as a teenager, participating in the War of Austrian Succession, after which he was promoted to colonel, and the Seven Years' War. During the war in America, Louis XVI asked Rochambeau to lead a force of 5,500 French soldiers to assist the fight against the Kingdom of Great Britain. He and George Washington later worked together in the successful siege of Yorktown. He led the Army of the North during the French Revolutionary Wars, but was arrested and almost executed during the Reign of Terror. His military rank was restored by Napoleon and Rochambeau died a few years later in 1807.
The Musée de la Révolution française is a departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the French Revolution.
George Peabody is a bronze statue of George Peabody (1795–1869), by William Wetmore Story. The bronze, cast in Rome at Alessandro Nelli's foundry, is located in the east garden of Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore.
Roger B. Taney is a 19th-century bronze statue of Chief Justice of the United States Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), by William Henry Rinehart. It was located in Baltimore, Maryland at the North Garden in Mount Vernon Place prior to being removed by the city of Baltimore in 2017.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, was widely commemorated in the U.S. and elsewhere. Below is a list of the many homages and/or tributes named in his honor:
Maurice Tranchant de Lunel, was a 20th-century French architect and writer.
Étienne Taillemite was a French historian and archivist.
Haïm Kern was a German-born French sculptor, painter, and engraver.