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Petitot successfully completed the commission, which was erected in 1817. In 1822 he completed a commemorative marble bust of Claude de Forbin (1656–1733), which was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1822 and was purchased for Versailles.
Petitot successfully completed the commission, which was erected in 1817. In 1822 he completed a commemorative marble bust of Claude de Forbin (1656–1733), which was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1822 and was purchased for Versailles.
On his return to Paris he worked again with Pierre Cartellier, who was engaged in an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, to be erected in the cour d"honneur of Versailles, as part of the celebration of the Bourbon Restoration. At Cartellier"s death, only the horse had been cast in bronze. He exhibited a Young Hunter Wounded by a Snake (illustration) at the Paris Salon of 1827, which was purchased for the Musée du Louvre, and partly on the strength of it, was invited to produce a standing sculpture of Louis XIV, to be cast in bronze and set up in the place Saint-Sauveur, Caen.
The monument was intended to replace the stone sculpture of Louis XIV, by Jean Postel, sculptor of Lyon, which was commissioned in 1684 and erected the following year, but which had been taken down and demolished during the Revolution.
He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.