Bronze statuette of Julius Casesar, laureate, wearing Roman armour and a cloak, holding a marshal's baton in his extended right hand. His left hand rests on a tall rectangular shield with canted corners. The figure stands on an integrally-cast naturalistic base.

In 1696 a full-size marble statue of Julius Caesar was commissioned from Nicolas Coustou as a pair to a statue of Hannibal by Sebastien Slodtz. Both statues were installed in the Tuileries gardens in Paris in 1722. This bronze statuette, of which another version is in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, was probably cast from a small plaster model for the marble statue. Both Louis XIV, who commissioned the marble, and George IV, who eventually acquired this bronze, were often portrayed in Roman armour similar to that worn here by Julius Caesar. The goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, from whom this bronze was acquired, made several further casts with the head of George IV substituted for that of the Roman emperor.

Exhibition catalogue Cast in bronze (Paris, New York and Los Angeles, 2008-9), no. 72B