Lot Essay
This pair of wall-lights is a variant of a Louis XVI model by Gallien and Bureaux. The bronzier Pierre Bureaux (born 1728) purchased the inventory of the bronzier Edme-Jean Gallien (1720-1797) on 6 February 1771. This inventory listed all the elements that make up these wall lights:
Un autre fort bras trois branches corps de chasse et branchages de lierre 300 livres.
Un bras deux branches fort noeuds de rubans 150 livres.
Une paire de bras trois branches pied de biche.
In 1774 Bureaux delivered the following wall-lights for the Salon of the chteau de Chessy:
Plus fourny une forte paires de bras deux corps de chasse nou ensemble avec une charpe qui fait la coconde en hault retombant en bas en deux partie avec des gland grene d'epinard model faites expres l'exceptions des corps pour le 110.
A set of four Louis XVI wall-lights of this model was sold Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 221.
A set of Empire wall-lights of this model in the Salon de Compagnie at Versailles, delivered by Galle for Versailles on 23 December 1809 for 2960 francs is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, p. 98. They share with the pair in this lot the unusual feature of an applied mount to the underside of the three front candle nozzles, decorated with vine leaves.
Un autre fort bras trois branches corps de chasse et branchages de lierre 300 livres.
Un bras deux branches fort noeuds de rubans 150 livres.
Une paire de bras trois branches pied de biche.
In 1774 Bureaux delivered the following wall-lights for the Salon of the chteau de Chessy:
Plus fourny une forte paires de bras deux corps de chasse nou ensemble avec une charpe qui fait la coconde en hault retombant en bas en deux partie avec des gland grene d'epinard model faites expres l'exceptions des corps pour le 110.
A set of four Louis XVI wall-lights of this model was sold Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 221.
A set of Empire wall-lights of this model in the Salon de Compagnie at Versailles, delivered by Galle for Versailles on 23 December 1809 for 2960 francs is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, p. 98. They share with the pair in this lot the unusual feature of an applied mount to the underside of the three front candle nozzles, decorated with vine leaves.