These wall-lights are loosely inspired by those delivered by Thomire-Duterme et Cie for the château Fontainebleau in 1809 (illustrated in J. P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 140, fig. 112)
A closely related set of eight wall-lights was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 19 May 1994, lot 86