FRENCH GILT BRONZE: WALL LIGHTS IO5
One of four 171
- Four Wall Lights ι
Paris, circa 1765-1770
Attributed to Philippe Caffieri
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 10% in. (56.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3% in. (40 cm); Depth: 10% in. (26 cm)
Accession number 92 .DF.18.1-.4
PROVENANCE
Sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 29,1966,
lot 45, to [B. Fabre et Fils, Paris, circa 1977];
private collection, Paris, circa 1977; [Maurice
Segoura, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1992," GettyMusJzi (1993),
in press, illus.
One of six 172
Six Wall Lights
Paris, circa 1775
After a design attributed to Richard de
Lalonde
Gilt bronze
Height: 2 ft. 3 in. (68.6 cm); Width:
ι ft. 1% in. (33.7 cm); Depth: 10 Η in.
(26.7 cm)
Accession numbers 74.DF.3.1—.2 and
77 .DF.29.1-.4
PROVENANCE
74 .DF.3.1-.2: [Alexander and Berendt, Ltd.,
London, 1974]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
77 .DF.29.1—.4: Sold, Christie's, London,
December 2,1976, lot 3; [Alexander and
Berendt, Ltd., London, 1976].
One of a pair 173
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 173, illus. p. 172, fig. 3.5.4 (here attributed
to Jean-Louis Prieur); Jonathan Bourne and
Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the Domestic
Interior: Renaissance toArtNouveau (London,
1991), n. 84, p. 110.
- Pair of Wall Lights
Paris, circa 1781
Attributed to Pierre Gouthiére, after a
design by Fran9ois-Joseph Bélanger
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 8/4 in. (52.1 cm); Width:
IOI5/I 6 in. (27.8 cm); Depth: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Accession number 74 .DF.5.1—.2
