Prohászka László: Equestrian Statues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

Eugene of Savoy

passed away, then a public fund-raising campaign was started.

After the War of Independence, however, it was not until 1857 that the erection of his monument was placed on the agenda once again. Although now Emperor Franz Joseph himself made a significant contribution to supplement the insufficient funds, he also stipulated that the monument should not be an equestrian statue, only a standard figure. (Even this more modest statue of the Palatine, cast in bronze, was only to be erected in 1860.)

In any case, the imperial veto had not gone unheeded. It was not until the turn of the century that a public equestrian monument was erected in Budapest.

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