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  • BUST OF KING LOUIS XIV’S FIRST SURGEON RETURNS TO VERSAILLES

    In France the National Museum has acquired The Bust of Georges Mareschal, by François Girardon one of the great sculptors of Louis XIV’s reign. Stuart Lochhead Sculpture presented the bust during TEFAF Maastricht 2020, where it had an asking price of €2.6 million. Georges Mareschal was a former inhabitant of Versailles and an important figure at the court of Louis XIV as the king’s first surgeon, who remained at the king’s side until his death in 1715. 

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