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Lot Essay
The son of the court painter P. F. von Hetsch, Gustav Friedrich Hetsch (1788-1864) was a leading neoclassical architect at the court of Christian IX of Denmark in the first half of the 19th century. A pupil of Charles Percier while studying architecture in Paris, Hetsch's architectural designs, including the ambitious award-winning design for a National Museum, strongly reflect the influence of his teacher the German architect/designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
A closely related pair of candelabra, supplied by Hetsch to Christian IX of Denmark, for which the drawing still survives in the state archives in Copenhagen, is discussed in Carlton Hobbs, Exhibition Catalogue Number Two, no. 17, and illustrated in J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 181, fig. 593.
The influence of Percier on their designs is revealed by the engraving for a Candlabre excut chez Mr. D Paris in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Rceuils des dcorations Interieurs, Paris, 1802.
A closely related pair of candelabra, supplied by Hetsch to Christian IX of Denmark, for which the drawing still survives in the state archives in Copenhagen, is discussed in Carlton Hobbs, Exhibition Catalogue Number Two, no. 17, and illustrated in J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 181, fig. 593.
The influence of Percier on their designs is revealed by the engraving for a Candlabre excut chez Mr. D Paris in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Rceuils des dcorations Interieurs, Paris, 1802.