FRENCH GILT BRONZE: WALL LIGHTS AND BRACKETS ΙΟΙ
One of a pair 163
- Pair of Wall Lights
Paris, circa 1715-1720
Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 8 /16 in. (51 cm); Width: 1 ft. 2 in.
(35.5 cm); Depth: 9 I3/i6 in. (25 cm)
Accession number 83 .DF.195.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Pierre de Faucigny-Lucinge, Vaux-le-Penil
(near Melun); [Fran£ois-Gerard Seligmann,
Paris]; Samuel Kahn, Verbere (Oise) and
Nice; [Bernard Baruch Steinitz, Paris, 1982].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean-Nérée Ronfort, "Le Fondeur Jean-
Pierre Mariette et la Fin de PAtelier
dAndre-Charles Boulle," L'Estampille 173
(September 1984), pp. 72-73, illus.;
Bremer-David, "Acquisitions 1983," no. 4,
p. 187, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983," GettyMusJ
12 (1984), no. 6, p. 263, illus.; Ottomeyer
and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 62,
illus. pp. 62, 83; Jean-Nérée Ronfort,
"André-Charles Boulle: Die Bronzearbeiten
und seine Werkstatt im Louvre," Vergoldete
Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock
unä\ Klassizismus, Hans Ottomeyer and
Peter Pröschel, eds. (Munich, 1986), vol. 2,
p. 495; n. 229, p. 519; Anna Saratowicz,
"Apliki do Sali Rycerskiej," Kronika
Zamkowayvj (1988), pp. 18-30, illus. p. 20.
- Pair of Wall Lights
(?) Paris, circa 1730
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 11 in. (58.5 cm); Width: 11 Ys in.
(28.3 cm); Depth: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Accession number 78 .DF.89.1-.2
PROVENANCE
[Cameron, London, 1950]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty, 1950.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 109, illus.
One of a pair 164
- Wall Bracket
Paris, circa 1730-173 5
Gilt bronze, brass, with oak core
Height: 1 ft.^34 in. (32.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3^3 /8 in. (39 cm); Depth: 6^34 in.
(17.2 cm)
Accession number 87 .DF.136 165
