A MATCHED SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
A MATCHED SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-LOUIS PRIEUR, CIRCA 1775, AFTER A DESIGN BY RICHARD DE LALONDE

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A MATCHED SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-LOUIS PRIEUR, CIRCA 1775, AFTER A DESIGN BY RICHARD DE LALONDE
Each with flaming finial over three upswept foliate arms and tapering fluted stem with chandelles, variations to casting and chasing, old replacements including one flame finial and band below
26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) high

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A similar set of six wall-lights was acquired by J. Paul Getty in the 1970s (purchased in 1974 and 1977 from Alexander and Berendt Ltd. as a set of four and a pair respectively) and are now in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. They derive from a design executed circa 1770 by Richard de Lalonde (n.d.), also in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (79 GA 179), which is illustrated in C. Bremer-David, The J. Paul Getty Handbook, Malibu, 1993, p. 180, fig. 304. The design was formerly discussed in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, fig. 3.5.3, p. 172 and was then attributed to Jean-Louis Prieur.
A watercolor depicting the Grand salon of the château de Chantilly shows a pair of wall-lights similar to this model. The watercolor is part of an album which was presented to Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich of Russia in 1782, but has since been returned to the Musée Condé at Chantilly. The Grand Duke subsequently acquired a set of four identical wall-lights for the so-called Tapestry Study at Pavlovsk, which are illustrated in E. Ducamp, Pavlovsk, The Collection, Paris, 1993, p. 178 and fig. 52.
Similar wall lights include a pair which was almost certainly acquired by Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (d. 1836) for Panshanger, Hertfordshire, was sold by Mr. and Mrs. Julian Salmond, Christie’s, London, 7 December 1995, lot 19, a pair sold Christie’s, London, 5 July 2001, lot 4, and a pair sold Christie's, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 39.

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