CIRCA 1715, AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLES-MARIE OPPENORDT

These impressive wall-lights, with caryatid figures emerging from garlanded backplates, derive from a drawing for a similar wall-light by the ornemaniste Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, in his Livre de differentes decorations d'appartements (published circa 1730). These probably date from around 1715, when Oppenordt was working at the Palais Royal for the Regent, the duc d'Orlans. Similar wall-lights are in Schloss Fasanerie, Fulda (see, H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 66, figs. 1.9.20-1). Other wall-lights of this model are in the Wrightsman Collection (illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1970, vol. III, p. 75, cat. 307 A and B), the J. Paul Getty Museum, (illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 100, cat. 162) and the Muse Jacquemart Andr, Paris.