Horse in Majesty at Versailles
June 25 2024
Picture: chateauversailles.fr
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Horse lovers will have yet another opportunity to bask in the beauty of historic depicts of these majestic animals in France this year (see the previous post on Géricault's Horses at the Le Musée de la Vie romantique). The Palace of Versailles will be opening a new show dedicated to the Horse in Majesty on 2nd July 2024 and have created this rather snazzy poster to help promote the show (pictured).
According to the palace's website:
To coincide with the equestrian events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to be hosted on the Versailles estate, the Château is holding a major exhibition dedicated to horses and equestrian civilisation in Europe – the first exhibition on this theme to be presented on such a scale. [...]
Nearly 300 works will highlight the roles and uses of horses in civil and military society, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, up to the eve of the First World War, which marked the end of horse-drawn civilisation and the relegation of horses to the realm of leisure.
The show will gallop along until 3rd November 2024.
