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拍品專文
These spectacular and precious candelabra, with ovoid bodies flanked by female masks issuing scrolling branches cast with acanthus foliage, demonstrate the enduring popularity in the early 19th Century for the most celebrated models of bronzes d’ameublement from the Ancien Régime.
They are based on a series of candelabra attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), who, along with Pierre Gouthière, was perhaps the most renowned bronzier of the Louis XVI period.
The Louis XVI examples, all with the same ovoid body but with variations to the arms, include:
-A pair at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, Fribourg, 1974, p.696, fig.169)
- A pair at the château de Fontainebleau, acquired from the dealer Legendre in 1804 (illustrated in J.P.Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, fig. 129)
- A pair in the Wallace Collection, with candle arms in the form of Egyptian masks (a particular leitmotif of Rémond’s work), which can be associated with candelabra delivered by Rémond in 1785 to the celebrated marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, described as ‘une paire de girandole à Vase et Branche à tête' (illustrated in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, vol. III, London, 1996, pp. 1250-1254)
-A pair in the Huntington Collection, Pasadena, also with Egyptian-form arms but with a differing frieze at the center of the vase (illustrated in C. Sargentson, M. Chapman et al., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, 2008, pp. 172-3, cat. 66
FRANÇOIS REMOND
One of the foremost ciseleurs-doreurs of the Louis XVI period, François Rémond was patronised by many of the most discerning and important collectors of the day, such as the comte d'Artois to whom he supplied ormolu for the Cabinet Turc at Versailles, the duc de Penthièvre, the Princesse de Lamballe and the Princesse Kinsky (whose commissions for the Hôtel Kinsky in Paris are discussed by C. Baulez in 'Le Luminaire de la Princesse Kinsky', L'Objet d'Art, May 1991, pp.84-99).
Rémond supplied a considerable amount of bronzes d'ameublement to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, most of which in the style which defines the last flowering of the Louis XVI period, the goût Etrusque or arabesque. He collaborated extensively with the celebrated marchand mercier Daguerre, to whom he is recorded to have supplied work valued at the staggering sum of 920,000 livres between 1778 and 1792.
They are based on a series of candelabra attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), who, along with Pierre Gouthière, was perhaps the most renowned bronzier of the Louis XVI period.
The Louis XVI examples, all with the same ovoid body but with variations to the arms, include:
-A pair at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, Fribourg, 1974, p.696, fig.169)
- A pair at the château de Fontainebleau, acquired from the dealer Legendre in 1804 (illustrated in J.P.Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, fig. 129)
- A pair in the Wallace Collection, with candle arms in the form of Egyptian masks (a particular leitmotif of Rémond’s work), which can be associated with candelabra delivered by Rémond in 1785 to the celebrated marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, described as ‘une paire de girandole à Vase et Branche à tête' (illustrated in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, vol. III, London, 1996, pp. 1250-1254)
-A pair in the Huntington Collection, Pasadena, also with Egyptian-form arms but with a differing frieze at the center of the vase (illustrated in C. Sargentson, M. Chapman et al., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, 2008, pp. 172-3, cat. 66
FRANÇOIS REMOND
One of the foremost ciseleurs-doreurs of the Louis XVI period, François Rémond was patronised by many of the most discerning and important collectors of the day, such as the comte d'Artois to whom he supplied ormolu for the Cabinet Turc at Versailles, the duc de Penthièvre, the Princesse de Lamballe and the Princesse Kinsky (whose commissions for the Hôtel Kinsky in Paris are discussed by C. Baulez in 'Le Luminaire de la Princesse Kinsky', L'Objet d'Art, May 1991, pp.84-99).
Rémond supplied a considerable amount of bronzes d'ameublement to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, most of which in the style which defines the last flowering of the Louis XVI period, the goût Etrusque or arabesque. He collaborated extensively with the celebrated marchand mercier Daguerre, to whom he is recorded to have supplied work valued at the staggering sum of 920,000 livres between 1778 and 1792.