In 1754, the French city of Rennes installed a full-length bronze statue of King Louis XV that it had commissioned from the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger. In showing the monarch wearing Roman armor and carrying a baton, Lemoyne employed conventions that underscored the king’s authority and linked him to great rulers of antiquity. Johann George Wille’s print shows a stage in the casting of this statue via the lost-wax process. Here a wax model of the king’s figure is surrounded by sprues and gates, a network of pipes that facilitated the even spreading of molten bronze throughout the mold (and provided a means for the melted wax, displaced by the molten bronze, to escape). Wille’s print provides an invaluable record of the statue, which was destroyed during the French Revolution.