Kommentar til Marts 1827
[Author’s note in the text:]
Poniatowski, it may be remembered, was drowned in passing the river after the battle of Leipsic. His statue, with the consent of the Grand Duke Constantine, was destined for the chief square at Warsaw, and intended to surmount the Fountain. The river was to be expressed by the Fountain, or the Fountain was ingeniously converted into the river. The horse was represented starting back upon the bank, Poniatowski as urging him on. Undulatory lines half way up the pedestal, express the same idea. This mixture between the representation and the reality is not judicious, but an artist would do wrong “d’avoir toujours raison.”
Sidst opdateret 25.10.2020