List of equestrian sculptures

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This is a list of Equestrian sculptures by country.

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Armenia 3 Australia 4 Austria 5 Belgium 6 Bulgaria 7 Chile 8 Croatia 9 Czech Republic 10 Denmark 11 Finland 12 France 13 Georgia 14 Germany 15 Greece 16 Hungary 17 India 18 Italy 19 Kyrgyzstan 20 Latvia 21 Mexico 22 Moldova 23 Norway 24 Poland 25 Portugal 26 Russia 27 Serbia 28 Spain 29 Sweden 30 Turkey 31 Ukraine 32 United Kingdom 33 United States 34 Uzbekistan 35 Venezuela

[edit] Argentina

• Equestrian sculpture of José de San Martín in Rio Cuarto
• Monumento a Giuseppe Garibaldi in Buenos Aires

[edit] Armenia

• Modern equestrian sculptures of David of Sassoun, Hovhannes Baghramian, Gayk Bzhishkyan, Andranik Ozanian and Vartan Mamikonian in Yerevan

[edit] Australia

• Sydney, King Edward VII, location- near Conservatorium of music, Macquarie St. sculptor- Sir Thomas Brock. date erected- 1921.
• Blackheath, equestrian statue of the mythical bushranger, Govett, who leapt his horse over a cliff rather than be captured. This event, commemorated in bronze, never took place. The name Govett's Leap pertains to a waterfall named after a surveyor William Romaine Govett.

[edit] Austria

• Archduke Charles of Austria and Prince Eugene of Savoy, Heldenplatz, Vienna, both by Anton Dominik Fernkorn; the equestrian sculpture of Archduke Charles is in so far a miracle which stands for Fernkorn's craftmanship as a sculptor, as only the two back legs of the horse have a connection with the pedestal, outdoing the achievement of Tacca's equestrian sculpture of Philip IV in Madrid.

[edit] Belgium

• Equestrian monument of Godfrey of Bouillon,Royal Square, Brussels, Belgium

[edit] Bulgaria

• Monument to the Tsar Liberator in Sofia

[edit] Chile

• Equestrian of José de San Martín in Santiago de Chile

[edit] Croatia

• Equestrian of Ban Josip Jelačić in Zagreb

[edit] Czech Republic

• Equestrian monument of Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia by Josef Václav Myslbek on Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czech Republic
• Equestrian monument of Jan Žižka by Bohumil Kafka in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic

[edit] Denmark

• Equestrian monument of King Christian V by French sculptor Abraham-César Lamoureux (1635–1692) on Kongens Nytorv (The King's New Square), Copenhagen. Originally in lead 1688, replaced in 1945 by a bronze copy.
• Equestrian monument of King Frederik V in bronze by Jacques-Francois-Joseph Saly in front of Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, erected 1771.
• Equestrian monument of King Frederik VII in bronze by H. Bissen on Christiansborg Palace Sqaure, Copenhagen, erected 1873.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian IX in bronze by L. Brandstrup in Esjerg erected 1899.
• Equestrian monument of Bishop Absalon in bronze by Vilhelm Bissen on Højbro Plads, Copenhagen, erected 1902.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian IX in bronze by L. Brandstrup in Slagelse erected 1910.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian IX in bronze by C. Bonnesen in Aalborg erected 1910.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian IX in bronze by Aksel Hansen in Odense erected 1912.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian IX in bronze by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen in Copenhagen erected 1927.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian X in bronze by V. Kvederis in Nakskov erected in 1952
• Equestrian monument of King Christian X in bronze by E. Utzon-Frank on St. Annæ Square, Copenhagen, erected in 1954.
• Equestrian monument of King Christian X in bronze by Helen Schou on Bispetorv (Bishop's Square), Aarhus, erected in 1955.

[edit] Finland

• Bronze equestrian monument of Marshal of Finland C.G.E. Mannerheim, located beside the main street Mannerheimintie in Helsinki in front of the Kiasma museum of modern art, by Aimo Tukiainen, erected in 1960.
• Bronze equestrian monument of Marshal of Finland C.G.E. Mannerheim, located in Asematori square in Lahti, by Veikko Leppänen, erected in 1959.
• Equestrian statue of Field Marshal Johan August Sandels, on his horse Bijou, in Rantsila town centre, by team of sculptors led by Martti Väänänen, erected in 1989.

[edit] France

• Jeanne d'Arc in Paris by Emmanuel Frémiet
• Louis XIV on Place Bellecour (Lyon) by François-Frédéric Lemot

[edit] Georgia

• Modern equestrian monuments of King David the Builder in Kutaisi and Tbilisi; General Giorgi Saakadze in Kaspi and Tbilisi; Prince Tsotne Dadiani in Poti, King Vakhtang Gorgasali in Tbilisi; King Erekle II in Telavi.

[edit] Germany

Bamberg

• The Bamberg Horseman, Cathedral, c. 1225-37

Berlin

• Equestrian monument of Friedrich the Great, Unter den Linden by Christian Daniel Rauch

Braunschweig

• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, design by Franz Pönninger, Vienna, foundry Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, Braunschweig
• Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (Brunswick and Lüneburg), design by Ernst Hähnel, Dresden, foundry Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, Braunschweig

Bremen

• Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern), design Louis Tuaillon

Cologne

• King Frederick William IV of Prussia, Rhine bridge, by Gustav Blaeser

Hanover

• King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, Central station, design by Albert Wolff

Koblenz

• The equestrian sculptural monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Deutsches Eck, by Emil Hundrieser, is the tallest of the Kaiser Wilhelm equestrian monuments, the sculpture itself is 14 meters high.

Lübeck

• Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, design Louis Tuaillon

Magdeburg

• The first equestrian sculpture north of the alps is the Magdeburger Reiter ("Magdeburg equestrian"), ca. 1240 in Magdeburg, probably showing Kaiser Otto I.

Merseburg

• King Frederick William III of Prussia, design Louis Tuaillon

Weimar

• Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by Adolf von Donndorf

The Bamberg Horseman

Frederick the Great by Rauch, Unter den Linden, Berlin

Magdeburger Reiter

[edit] Greece

• Equestrian statue of Alexander the Great , in Thessaloniki. Bucephalos is standing on two legs !

[edit] Hungary

• Equestrian of Stephen I by Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, Hungary

[edit] India

• Equestrian statue of Sir Mark Cubbon in Cubbon Park, Bangalore. Ordered from Baron Maroschetti and unveiled on the 16th of March, 1866.

[edit] Italy

• Bronze equestrian of Marcus Aurelius, (second half of the 2nd century) 5 m. tall, located at the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome. It is a remarkably well preserved bronze equestrian
• Equestrian of Emperor Constantine in St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican City, Rome, Italy
• Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio in Venice.
• Donatello's Gattamelata in Padua
• Giambolognas and Pietro Taccas equestrian of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany in Florence

Gattamelata (Padua)

Ferdinando de Medici (Florence)

Colleoni (Venice)

[edit] Kyrgyzstan

• Equestrian statue of Mikhail Frunze at a large park across from the train station

[edit] Latvia

• Equestrian monument of Peter the Great, at Brīvības gatves in Riga, by German sculptor Schmidt-Kossel, erected in 1910. The statue was evacuated and lost during WW1, but was later returned to Riga.

[edit] Mexico

• Equestrian of Charles IV of Spain, downtown Mexico City, by Tolsá

Charles IV, Mexico City

• Equestrian statue of Emiliano Zapata at the Hacienda de Chinameca, Morelos state, site of Zapata's death.

[edit] Moldova

• Equestrian monument of Alexander Suvorov in Tiraspol, central square.

[edit] Norway

• Equestrian monument of King Karl_Johan, at the King's Castle in Oslo, by Brynjulf Bergslien.

[edit] Poland

• Equestrian of Prince Jozef Poniatowski at the Presidential Palace, Warsaw by Bertel Thorvaldsen

Prince Poniatowski, Warsaw

[edit] Portugal

• Equestrian Statue of King Joseph I in Praça do Comércio, Lisbon

• Equestrian Statue of King John I in Praça da Figueira, Lisbon

King Joseph I, Lisbon

King John I, Lisbon

[edit] Russia

Moscow

• Equestrian statue of Yury Dolgoruky on Tverskaya Street.
• Equestrian statue of Georgy Zhukov on Manege Square.

St Petersburg

• The Bronze Horseman, as this awesome statue of Peter the Great on the Senate Square of St Petersburg is generally known, is the main work of Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-91).

• The Monument to Peter I in front of St. Michael's Castle.

• Bronze equestrian of Nicholas I of Russia in front of St Isaac's Cathedral was the first equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points (the rear feet of the horse).

• Impressionist bronze equestrian of Alexander III of Russia by Paolo Troubetzkoy, formerly in front of the Moscow Rail Terminal, now in the courtyard of the Marble Palace.

Tolyatti

• Monument to Vasily Tatischev.

The monument figures prominently in several works of fiction, including Andrei Bely's modernist novel Petersburg

The Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg, probably the most famous equestrian from the 18th century.

Yury Dolgoruky in Moscow, a celebrated example of Socialist Realism equestrian sculpture

Monument to Vasily Tatischev in Toliatti.

[edit] Serbia

• Equestrian of Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade by Enrico Pazzi, 1882.
• Equestrian of Peter I of Yugoslavia, in Zrenjanin by Rudolf Valdec, 1926-1941 (demolished by Nazis during occupation), restored in 2004.
• Monument of the Liberators, Niš

Monument of king Peter I of Yugoslavia

Monument to the liberators of Niš

[edit] Spain

• Equestrian of Philip IV in Madrid, by Pietro Tacca. Begun in 1634. The daring stability of the statue was calculated by Galileo Galilei. The horse rears, and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs and tail.
• Equestrian of Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara in Madrid. Probably the best known equestrian sculpture in Spain.
• Equestrian of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, part of the Monument to Cervantes in Madrid.
• Equestrian of Francisco Pizarro at the Major Square of Trujillo, where he was born.
• Equestrian of Isabella of Castile (1451–1504). Erected in Madrid (Spain) in 1883. Made of bronze by Manuel Oms Canet (Barcelona 1843–1886).
• Equestrian of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, (Gran Capitán), in Córdoba, by Mateo Inurria. The head is a portrait of El Lagartijo, a famous bullfighter.
• Equestrian of Alfonso XII, at the Retiro Park, monument by Grases Riera and bronze sculpture by Mariano Benlliure.
• Equestrian of General Arsenio Martínez Campos (1831–1900). Inaugurated in 1907. Made by Mariano Benlliure (1862–1947)

Statue of Philip IV in Madrid, by Tacca. The achievement of stability, owed to Galileo Galilei.	Monument to Francisco Pizarro at his natal town, Trujillo.	Statue of Philip III in Madrid, at the Plaza Mayor.	Monument to Cervantes: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the Plaza de España, Madrid.
Gonzalo de Cordoba by Mateo Inurria, erected in 1923 in Córdoba.	Arsenio Martinez Campos by Mariano Benlliure, erected in 1907, in Madrid.	Isabella of Castile by Manuel Oms (1883) in Madrid.

[edit] Sweden

• Equestrian of Charles XIV John (Karl XIV Johan) by Bengt Erland Fogelberg located at Slussplan on Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
• Equestrian called Kopparmärra of Charles IX of Sweden, standing at Kungsportsplaten, Göteborg, Sweden
• Equestrian of Charles X Gustav, standing at Stortorget, Malmö, Sweden

[edit] Turkey

• Equestrian of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Pietro Canonica located in Samsun, Turkey, 1931.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Samsun

[edit] Ukraine

• Equestrian of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, located in Kiev.
• Equestrian of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, located in Kiev.
• Equestrian of Daniel of Halych, located in Lviv.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny in Kiev.

Daniel of Halych, located in Lviv.

[edit] United Kingdom

• Equestrian statue of Richard I outside the Houses of Parliament, London
• Equestrian of King George IV in Trafalgar Square, London
• Equestrian of Charles I in Trafalgar Square, London
• Equestrian of the First Duke of Wellington outside Apsley House, London.
• Lobey Dosser with Rank Bajin on El Fidelio, Woodlands Road, Glasgow. This monument to Bud Neill is claimed to be the only two-legged equestrian statue in the world. For further images see Commons:Category:Lobey Dosser.
• Equestrain of the Emperor Nerva on Southgate St, Gloucester. A replica of a roman statue found in the ramains of the South Gate.

Greek Olympian rider at British Museum

Lobey Dosser monument to Bud Neill

[edit] United States

Alcalde, New Mexico

• Juan de Oñate Monument

Oñate by Reynaldo Rivera

Baltimore, Maryland

• John Eager Howard Monument, Washington Place, by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1904
• Marquis de La Fayette Monument, Washington Place, by Andrew O'Connor, 1924

Boston, Massachusetts

• George Washington, by Thomas Ball, 1869
• Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1897
• General Joseph Hooker by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, 1903
• Appeal to the Great Spirit by Cyrus Dallin, 1904
• Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, 1940

Shaw Memorial by St. Gaudens

Charlottesville, Virginia

• George Rogers Clark, by Robert Aitken, 1921
• Stonewall Jackson by Charles Keck, 1921
• Robert E. Lee, by Henry Shrady, finished by Leo Lentilli, 1924

Robert E Lee

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Chicago, Illinois

• General Ulysses S. Grant by Louis T. Rebisso, 1891
• A Signal of Peace by Cyrus Dallin, 1894
• General John A. Logan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1897
• Thaddeus Kosciuszko by Kasmir Chodzinski, 1904
• George Washington Memorial, by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, 1904
• General Philip Sheridan by Gutzon Borglum, 1923
• Indians, two statues by Ivan Meštrović, 1928
• Thomas Masaryk Memorial by Albin Polasek, 1941

Sheridan by Borglum	Masaryk by Polasek	Indian by Meštrović	Grant by Rebisso
Logan by St. Gaudens & Proctor

Colorado Springs, Colorado

• William Jackson Palmer by Nathan Potter, 1929

Denver, Colorado

• On the War Path by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1923
• Buckaroo by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1920
• Pioneer Monument, topped by an equestrian Kit Carson by Frederick MacMonnies,

Buckaroo

On the Warpath

El Paso, Texas

• Juan de Oñate "The Equestrian" Monument, at the El Paso International Airport, by John Houser , 2006

37 Feet Tall

Hoboken, New Jersey

• The Torch Bearers by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1955

Houston, Texas

• Bronze equestrian of Sam Houston, by Enrico Filiberto Cerracchio, at the entrance of Hermann Park, 1925.

Kansas City, Missouri

• The Scout, by Cyrus Dallin, on a hill overlooking Downtown Kansas City in Penn Valley Park, 1915.

McPherson, Kansas

• Bronze equestrian of Civil War General James B. McPherson in the courtyard of the McPherson County Courthouse, 1917.

Madison, New Jersey

• Francis Asbury by Augustus Lukeman, 1926

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Kosciuszko Park, by Gaetano Trentanove, 1906
• Erastus B. Wolcott, Lake Park, by Francis Herman Packer, 1920
• Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben West Lisbon Avenue, by J. Otto Schweizer, 1921

Morristown, New Jersey

• George Washington by F.G.R. Roth, 1928

Newark, New Jersey

• George Washington by J. Massey Rhind
• Bartolommeo Colleoni by J. Massey Rhind - a 1916 copy of Andrea del Verrocchio's statue

Washington by Rhind

Colleoni by Rhind

New York City

• George Washington, by Henry Kirke Brown and John Quincy Adams Ward. 1856
• Abraham Lincoln, from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, by Thomas Eakins and Willaim R. O'Donovan, 1892
• Ulysses S. Grant, from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, by Thomas Eakins and Willaim R. O'Donovan, 1892
• The Horse Tamers, Park Circle, Brooklyn, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1899
  • Gilded statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman, Central Park, 59th Street and Fifth Avenue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1903
• General Henry Warner Slocum, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1905
• Washington at Valley Forge by Henry Shrady, 1906
• Franz Sigel by Karl Bitter, 1907
• Joan of Arc, Riverside Park at 93rd Street by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1915
• Simón Bolívar, by Sally James Farnham Central Park South at Avenue of the Americas. 1921
• El Cid, courtyard of the Hispanic Society of America by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1927
• King Jagiello, Central Park, by Stanislaw Kazimierz Ostowski, pre 1939
• Roosevelt Memorial, in front of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West by James Earle Fraser, 1940
• Peace, the United Nations Gardens by Antun Augustinčić, 1954
• José Martí, Central Park, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1965

Theodore Roosevelt

Marti

Palmyra, Tennessee

• Andrew Jackson, by Enoch Tanner Wickham, 1961
• Dr. John W. Wickham, by Enoch Tanner Wickham, 1959

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• General George Gordon Meade by Alexander Milne Calder, 1887
• Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1890
• General George B. McClellan by Henry Jackson Ellicott, 1894
• Washington Monument by Rudolph Siemering, 1897
• General John Fulton Reynolds by John Rogers, 1884
• General Ulysses S. Grant by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, 1897
• The Medicine Man, by Cyrus Dallin, 1899
• Cowboy by Frederick Remington, 1908
• General Winfield Scott Hancock by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1910
• General George B. McClellan by Edward Clark Potter, 1912
• General Anthony Wayne by John Gregory, 1937

George Washington

John Reynolds

George McClellan

Joan of Arc

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• George Washington, West Park, by R.I. Pausch, 1891

Portland, Oregon

• Theodore Roosevelt, South Park Blocks, by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1922

Richmond, Virginia

• Washington Memorial, Thomas Crawford, 1857

The following statues are located on Monument Avenue.

• Robert E. Lee by Antonin Mercié, 1890
• JEB Stuart by Frederick Moynihan, 1907
• Stonewall Jackson by Frederick William Sievers, 1919

George Washington

Robert E. Lee

JEB Stuart

"Stonewall" Jackson

St. Louis, Missouri

• Bronze equestrian Apotheosis of Saint Louis in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum by Charles Niehaus

Apotheosis of Saint Louis

San Diego, California

• El Cid, Balboa Park by Anna Hyatt Huntington

San Francisco, California

• Simón Bolívar in U.N. Plaza

Washington D.C.

• Bronze equestrian of South American liberator Simón Bolívar, by Felix George Weichs de Weldon. On 18th St. at C St. and Virginia Ave. NW. At 27 feet tall it is possibly tallest equestrian statue in U.S., 1959.
• Gold-plated equestrian of General George Clinton on Connecticut Avenue

• Bronze equestrian of Civil War General James B. McPherson in McPherson Square, 1876.

[edit] Uzbekistan

• Equestrian of Timur Lenk, located in Amir Timur Square at the end of the pedestrian street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[edit] Venezuela

• Simón Bolívar, equestrian sculpture in Plaza Bolívar, in the centre of Caracas, 1870's