These wall-lights are based on a model supplied by Thomire-Duterme & Cie. after a design by Antoine Ravrio for the chteau de Fontainebleau in 1809 (see Hans Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1987, Vol. I, p. 356 and Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement sous le Premier Empire -- Fontainebleau Collection, pp. 140-41, figs. 112-13).