A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze six-light chandelier, late 19th century, after a model attributed to François Rémond

Related literature :

A. Forray-Calier, S. Legrand-Rossi, B. Quette, De bronze et d’or, bronzes dorés du musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 2024, p 112 to 115

The chandelier that served as the model for our example is a work attributed to the bronze sculptor François Rémond at the end of the 18th century and is now in the Nissim de Camondo Museum (Inv. Cam 146). Likely seized during the French Revolution, this chandelier was presented in 1808 by Napoleon to Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, Archchancellor of the Empire, whose Parisian residence, the Hôtel de Roquelaure, it adorned. Another, very similar example, dating from around 1785, from the former Wrightsman collection, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (number 1972.242).