Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

PROVENANCE

[Kraemer et Cie, Paris, 1974]; purchased by

J. Paul Getty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,

p. 243, illus.

174. Pair of Wall Lights
     Paris, circa 1787
     Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire
     Gilt bronze
     Height: 3 ft. 6Vz in. (107.9 cm); Width:
     ι ft. 10V16 in. (57 cm); Depth: ιι^7 Λ in.
     (30.1 cm)
     Accession number 83 .DF.23.1—.2
     PROVENANCE
     Dues de Mortemart, Chateau de Saint-
     Vrain, Seine-et-Oise, from the eighteenth
     century, by descent until 1982; [Maurice
     Segoura, Paris, 1982].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1983," no. 11,
     pp. 207-208, 211, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983,"
     GettyMusJ 12 (1984), no. 13, p. 266, illus.;
     Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
     p. 290, illus. p. 291.

One of a pair 174

175. Pair of Wall Lights
     Paris, circa 1787-1788
     Attributed to Pierre-Fran£ois or
     Jean-Pierre Feuchére
     Gilt bronze
     Height: 2 ft. % in. (61.6 cm); Width:
     ι ft.^9 /i6 in. (32 cm); Depth: 7% in. (18.5 cm)
     Accession number 78 .DF.90.1-.2
     PROVENANCE
     J. Bardac, Paris; Paul Dutasta, Paris (sold,
     Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4,1926,
     lot 105); (?) Rothschild collection, Paris;
     [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York];
     purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1953.

One of a pair 175

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,

p. 292, illus.; Verlet, Les Bronzes, pp. 336,

378-379, illus. p. 383, fig. 393.

Ιθ6 FRENCH GILT BRONZE: WALL LIGHTS