A late Louis XV gilt-bronze "à la grecque" six-light chandelier, circa 1770, attributed to Jean-Louis Prieur (1732–1795)
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with scrolling and intertwined branches, centred by a vase adorned with Greek-key motifs and flowers, the lower section terminating in large foliage, the faceted geometric mounts feature ram’s heads ending in covered urns, joined by a small dome decorated with festoons and laurel leaves; (fitted for electricity)
Haut. 86 cm, diam. 68 cm ; Height 34 in., diam. 26 ¾ in.
Bernard Steinitz Collection, Paris;
Former private collection, United States.
Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris, 1998;
Salon Fine Arts, Paris, 2011.
A. Forray-Carlier, De bronze et d’or: Bronzes dorés du musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 2024, pp. 66–69, ill. p. 69.
Related Literature:
N. Gasc and G. Mabille, Le Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, “Musées et Monuments de France” series, 1991, p. 59.
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich, Klinkhardt & Biermann, vol. 1, p. 175, no. 3.5.12.
B. Rondot, Musée Nissim de Camondo: Catalogue des collections, Paris, 1998, pp. 49–50, no. 245.
L’aigle blanc. Stanislas Auguste, dernier roi de Pologne, collectionneur et mécène au siècle des Lumières, exh. cat., Musée National du Palais de Compiègne, 3 April – 4 July 2011, pp. 118–119, cat. nos. 100–101 and 102.
S. Legrand-Rossi, “Les bronzes d’ameublement attribués à Jean-Louis Prieur (1732–1795) au musée Nissim de Camondo,” in Dessiner et ciseler le bronze: Jean-Louis Prieur (1732–1795), exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 15 October 2015 – 17 January 2016.
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