I04 FRENCH GILT BRONZE: WALL LIGHTS
Argentina and Switzerland (offered for sale,
Sotheby's, Monaco, June 14-15,1981, lot
148a—b, bought in).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert,
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des
sciences, planches (Paris, 1762), vol. 1, s.v.
"architecture," pis. 32-33; Axelle de Broglie
de Gaigneron, "Le 3eme Témoin de l'art de
F-Th. Germain, bronzier," Connaissance des
arts 199 (September 1968), pp. 76-77, illus.; 1
Max Terrier, "L'Appliqué: Sa Provenance,"
Connaissance des arts 201 (November
1968), pp. 32-33; Svend Eriksen, Early
Neo-Classicism in France (London, 1974),
p. 349, pi. 202; Pierre Verlet, "Bronzes
d'ameublement fran$ais du XVIIIe siécle:
Notes et documents," Bulletin de la
Société de l'histoire de l'art frangais (1980),
pp. 200-201, illus. p. 203; Michel Beurdeley,
La France ä Vencan iy8p-iypp (Fribourg,
1981), p. 167, pis. 177-178; Wilson, "Acqui
sitions 1981," no. 4, pp. 73-78 (with a note
on conservation by Barbara Roberts);
Wilson, Selections, no. 25, pp. 50-51, illus.;
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 145, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 164, illus.
(one); Jean-Louis Baritou and Dominique
Foussand, Chevolet-Contant-Chaussard: Un
Cabinet d'architectes au siecle des lumieres
(Lyon, 1987), pp. 135-140, illus. p. 182;
Verlet, Les Bronzes, pp. 296-299, illus.
p. 30, fig. 18; p. 171, fig. 209; p. 256, fig. 275;
p. 297, figs. 327-329; Ρ- 298, figs. 330-331;
Pallot, L'Art du siege, p. 160, illus.; Anna
Saratowicz, "Apliki do Sali Rycerskiej,"Kronika Zamkowayvy (1988), pp. 18-30;
Jacques Charles et al., De Versailles ä Paris:
Le Destín des collections royales (Paris, 1989),
illus. p. 143, fig. 2; Jonathan Bourne and
Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the Domestic
Interior: Renaissance to ArtNouveau (London,
1991), illus. p. 75, fig. 237; Handbook 1991,
p. 180, illus. (one).Six Wall Lights
Paris, circa 1765-1770
By Philippe Caffieri
Gilt bronze
Lights 78.DF.263.ι and 82.DF.35.1 stenciled
No 151 on back. Light 82.DF.35.1 engraved
fait par Caffiery on one drip pan and
stamped with the numbers 2 and 5 on
back. 82 .DF.35.2 stamped with the number
4 on back.
Height: 2 ft. 1/2 in. (64.8 cm); Width:
ι ft. 4V2 in. (41.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. % in.
(31.ι cm)
Accession numbers 78 .DF.263.1-.4 and
82 .DF.35.1-.2
PROVENANCE
78 .DF.263.1-.4: (?) Sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris,
May 26-27,1921, lot 99, to de Friedel; pri
vate collection, Paris (sold, Etude Couturier
Nicolay, Paris, April 6,1978, lot 52); [Alex
ander and Berendt, Ltd., London, 1978].
82 .DA.35.1-.2: Henri Smulders, Amsterdam
(sold, two from a set of four, Frederik
Muller and Co. [Mensing et Fils], Amster
dam, June 26-27,1934, lot 98); private col
lection, Los Angeles, probably purchased in
Paris; Mr. Lee Greenway, Los Angeles (sold,Sotheby's, Los Angeles, October 21, 1980,
lot 787A); [Alexander and Berendt, Ltd.,
London, 1980].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1977 to mid 1979,"
no. 7, pp. 42-43, illus. (one); Sassoon,
"Acquisitions 1982," no. 10, pp. 52-53, illus.;
Wilson, Selections, no. 35, pp. 70-71, illus.
(one); Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete
Bronzen, pp. 190-191, illus.; Handbook 1986,
p. 173, illus. (one); Verlet, Les Bronzes, p. 293,
illus. p. 199, fig. 228, and p. 253, fig. 267;
Handbook 1991, p. 189, illus. (one).One of six 170