FRENCH GILT BRONZE: WALL LIGHTS IO3Tajan, Paris, December 12,1978, lot 48);
[Partridge (Fine Arts) Ltd., London, 1978];
private collection, London; [Partridge (Fine
Arts) Ltd., London, 1983].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bremer-David, "Acquisitions 1984," no. 3,
pp. 76-79, illus.; "Acquisitions/1984,"
GettyMusJ 13 (1985), no. 57, p. 180, illus.;
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
pp. 100,140, illus.; Alvar González-Palacios,
II Tempio del Gusto: Le arti decorative in
Italia fra Chssicismi e barocco (Milan, 1986),
vol. i, p. 206; vol. 2, pp. 230-231, fig. 453;
Handbook 1986, p. 161, illus. (one).
One of four 168
- Four Wall Lights
(See entry no. 303.)
Paris, 1756
By Fran£ois-Thomas Germain
Gilt bronze
Two wall lights engraved FAIT PAR
F. T. GERMAIN. SCULP. O RED U ROI AUX
GALLERIES DU LOUVRE. 1756 at lower
right and left. Two stamped with Palais du
Luxembourg inventory number 1051 LUX
1 and two with 1051 LUX2.,All punched
with Chateau de Compiégne inventory
marks CP under a crown and N° 28, at
lower rear. Various numbers stamped on
bobeches and drip pans.
Wall Light .i.a: Height: 3 ft. 3% in.
(99.6 cm); Width: 2 ñ.^7 A in. (63.2 cm);
Depth: 1 ft. 4/8 in. (41.0 cm); Wall Light
.i.b: Height: 3 ft. 1% in. (94.6 cm); Width:
ι ft. io^5 /8 in. (57.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. is/s in.
(34.6 cm); Wall Light .2.a: Height:
3 ft. 4/4 in. (102.9 cm); Width: 2 ft. 1 in.
(63.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. iVi in. (34.3 cm);
Wall Light .2.b: Height: 2 ft. 11 V% in.
(89.2 cm); Width: 1 ft. io^3 /s in. (56.8 cm);
Depth: 1 ft. 3% in. (40.3 cm)
Accession number 8i.DF.96.i.a-.b and
.2.a-.b
PROVENANCE
Made for Louis-Philippe, due d'Orléans;
four pairs installed in the Chambre de
Parade and the Salon des Jeux of the Palais
Royal, Paris, circa 1756; sold privately in
1786 by Louis-Philippe-Joseph, due
d'Orléans, and purchased by the bronzier
Feuchére (probably Pierre-Fran$ois Feuchére)
for Louis XVI; four pairs purchased by the
Mobilier Royal, Paris, August 30,1786, and
described as having damaged gilding; twoOne of four 169pairs regilded by Feuchére in the first six
months of 1787 for 500 livres a pair and
installed in the Salon des Nobles de la Reine,
Chateau de Compiégne, until 1791; Govern
ment of France, Palais du Luxembourg,
Paris, after 1792; Baron Mayer Amschel de
Rothschild, the Great Dining Room,
Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, late
nineteenth century; Hannah de Rothschild
(Countess of Rosebery, wife of the 5th Earl,
married 1878, died 1890), Mentmore Towers;
Albert Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery,
Mentmore Towers (sold, Sotheby's, London,
April 17,1964, lot 18); [Francois-Gérard
Seligmann, Paris]; private collection,