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 276 Sculpture in the Nineteenth Century. unfortunately careless about finished execution, and his works have all a certain appearance of incompleteness. His principal productions are the sculptures of the pedi- ments of the Walhalla, Munich ; a colossal ideal figure of Bavaria ; and the statues of Tilly and Wrede in the Generals' Hall, Munich. August Kiss (1 802 — 1865) made a world-wide reputation by his Amazon on Horseback attacked by a Lion, exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde Park, and now in front of the Museum of Berlin. Ernst von Bandel (1800 — 1876) is famous for his gigantic hammered copper figure, 45ft. high, of Arminius, which stands on a pedestal of sandstone 90ft. in height, on the top of the Grotenberg, near Detmold, where it was erected in 1875. Foremost among living German sculptors are Johann Schilling, Albert Wolff, Emil Wolff, Hugo Schaper, Karl Steinhauser, and Reinhold Begas. In France towards the close of the 18th century a new impulse was given to sculpture by Antoine Chaudet (1763 — 1810), who followed the classical style, and produced several fine works, such as his group of the Shepherd Phorbas carrying away the young (Edipus. His principal followers were Francois Bosio (1769 — 1845), who executed the reliefs for the famous Vendome Column, and designed the quadriga of the Triumphal Arch of the Place Carrousel : —Pierre Cortot (1787—1843), author of the group of Marie Antoinette supported by Religion, in the " Chapelle Expiatoire," Paris, of the group in the pediment of the • Palais de Justice, and the reliefs on the Arc de l'Etoile, representing Napoleon crowned by Victory.