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==Reception==
The pair was popular in the 18th century, as illustrators of centaurs as civilized patrons of hospitality rather than bestial half-animals, and casts of them were collected across Europe - for example, the pair at the [[Royal Academy, London|Royal Academy]], one at either side of the foot of their main staircase, which are there to this day (in what is now the [[Courtauld Institute]] gallery; or those bought by [[Joseph Nollekens]] from [[Bartolomeo Cavaceppi]] that may still be seen at [[Shugborough Hall]], Staffordshire. Full-sized marble copies were also produced in large numbers - Cavaceppi produced them, and [[Pietro Della Valle]] sculpted one in Rome for the count [[Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay|Grimod d’Orsay]] - he intended it to be placed on a fountain in the Museum Courtyard in 1795, but it was in fact placed at Saint-Cloud in July 1802 (it was later brought to [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]] on 23 March 1872, and on 24 September 1924 moved into the Grand Trianon garden there[http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/1_Adopt_a_statue_in_the_Park.php]).
==External links==
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