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 and Eighteenth Centuries. 271 Apollo coming down to Thetis, in the gardens of Versailles : — Nicolas Coustou (1658 — 1733), author of the group of the Junction of the Seine and Marne, in the Garden of the Tuileries : — Guillaume Coustou (1678 — 1746), author of the famous Ecuyers, or Chevaux de Marly in the Champs Elysees, Paris. Edme Bouchardon (1698 — 1762), author of the charming group of Psyche and Cupid in the Louvre, and fine statues of Christ, Mary, and the Apostles, in the church of St. Sulpice, Paris : — Jean-Antoine Houdon (1740 — 1828), author of the Flayed Man, in the Louvre (well known in Schools of Art), the statue of St. Bruno in the Certosa at Rome, and the portrait statues of Rousseau in the Louvre, of Moliere in the Theatre Francais, Paris ; and of Washington at Philadelphia, in which the ideal and real are well combined. In Germany, in the seventeenth century, a marked decline took place in sculpture. The Thirty Years' War, which lasted Irom 1618 to 1648, checked all artistic effort; and it was not until the close of the century that any great German master arose, although several fine monu- ments — such as those of the Emperor Maximilian at Inns- pruck, and the Elector Moritz at Freiburg — were erected by Dutch artists. Andreas Schliiter (1664 — 1714) was the first to give to Berlin the artistic position it still occupies. His principal work is the bronze equestrian statue of the great Elector of Saxony at Berlin (Fig. 113), justly considered a master- piece of art. At the beginning of the eighteenth century came Georg Raphael Donner (1695 — 1741), a master famous for his true sense of the beautiful, and power of conception. His