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Marble statue of Anne d''Autriche in Jardin du Luxembourg.
Joseph Marius Ramus's statue of Anne of Austria (1847) is one in a series of queens and saints in Jardin du Luxembourg. Anne (1601 - 1666) was married to Louis XIII. She was 37 by the time the heir to the throne, Louis XIV, was born.
Anne of Austria wears a laced dress with a cape. In her right hand she holds a scroll, in her left a sceptre.
Her hair is curly and open.
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Statue of a young, well built man with a pony-tail in Jardin des Tuileries.
The bronze statue of Apollon was created by Paul Belmondo around 1933. It stands next to another of his works - Jeannette, which he created around the same time. The two statues were gifted by his son, the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and placed in the gardens in 1988.
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The stone figure of Amsterdam is above the second plinth from the left outside Gare du Nord.
The statue of Amsterdam by Charles Gumery (1865) is one of the eight larger figures on the cornice line of Gare du Nord, representing international destinations reached from Paris by this railway (at that time) as well as Paris.
They are from left to right:
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
Warsaw
Brussels
Paris
Berlin
Cologne
London
Vienna
Amsterdam wears a crown and a long gown slung over her right shoulder. In the bend of her right arm she carries some flowers, tulips. With her left hand she leans on a large shield.
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In a corner of the Jardin des Tuileries you see a fallen tree with some strong roots.
Most people seeing this sculpture of a large tree baring its roots have to look twice before realising that it is in fact a bronze statue. Maybe that is why the artist called his piece L'arbre des Voyelles (1999) - The Tree of Vowels. Oh - it is a statue...
Guiseppe Penone called on the talents of landscape architect Pascal Cribier to blend in his art in a natural setting, which worked perfectly. The sculpture is hiding in plein sight.