Sainte-Clotilde
Sainte-Clotilde stands among the sculptures of Paris’s Luxembourg Gardens, where marble, greenery, and formal parterres shape the setting. The two-metre-thirty figure belongs to a series honouring queens and illustrious women. Around it, 115 statues, allegories, and memorials occupy the garden’s 23 hectares.
Jean-Baptiste Klagmann created the sculpture for this historic collection of women connected with France. Sainte-Clotilde was Clovis’s second wife and influenced his conversion to Christianity. Her political and religious importance appears through the diadem, long robe, and composed royal posture.
Her head turns slightly right while braided hair falls forward across the mantle. She rests her right arm on an ivy-wrapped column, with her right leg crossed over her left. Look closely at the marble hand: the little finger on the right is broken.
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