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    The Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou, showing two rearing horses with their groom. They were commissioned...
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    The Château de Marly (French pronunciation: [ʃato də maʁli]) was a French royal residence located in what is now Marly-le-Roi, the commune on the northern...
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    pyre, (1704), Louvre Study for one of the horses of Marly, Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the Marly Horses Daphne chased by Apollo, Louvre Allegory...
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    seaside resort, the city incorporated in 1959. The Del Mar Horse Races are hosted on the Del Mar racetrack every summer. The population was 3,954 at the...
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    Del Mar in 1946 and that same year the Santa Fe Railroad began offering a racetrack special bringing spectators, bettors, and horses to Del Mar from...
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    to Highland Park. These sculptures are copies of the famous Marly Horses (Chevaux de Marly) (marble, 1739-45), which were created by sculptor Guillaume...
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    The Machine de Marly (French pronunciation: [maʃin də maʁli]), also known as the Marly Machine or the Machine of Marly, was a large hydraulic system in...
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    nature was iconographically desirable. The Marly Horses made by Guillaume Coustou the Elder for Louis XV at Marly-le-Roi were re-set triumphantly in Paris...
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    and, at the suggestion of Jacques-Louis David, the statues of the "Marly Horses by Guillaume Coustou the Elder, were placed on the north side, at the...
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    (1952–1991, SECAM, used in East Germany) Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française "Marly Horses" test card (1953, 819-lines) ТИТ-0154 colour test card (1954, abandoned...
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