Complex sentence: Louis-Philippe I himself chose the women to be portrayed and most of the sculptures were commissioned around 1843, for around 12,000 francs each, and generally exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1847 or 1848.
Split into simpler sentences: Louis-Philippe I himself chose the women to be portrayed and most of the sculptures were commissioned around 1843, for around 12,000 francs each. They were exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1847 or 1848.