Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 572. A pair of late Louis XV patinated and gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, circa 1770, attributed to François Rémond.

A pair of late Louis XV patinated and gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, circa 1770, attributed to François Rémond

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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A pair of late Louis XV patinated and gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, circa 1770, attributed to François Rémond


with an ovoid backplate mounted with female and satyr masks each emitting three scrolling foliate and berried candle arms, the backplate with applied lush floral and vine branches; (repairs to pendant final of one and to arms of each, the patina of the backplates possibly originally blued and repatinated in a later period)

height. 25 in.; width 20 in.; 64 cm, 50 cm.


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Paire d'appliques en bronze patiné et doré de la fin de l'époque Louis XVI, attribuée à François Rémond, vers 1770


à trois bras de lumière; (restaurations à une guirlande en bas d'un fût et à un bras de chaque applique; la patine du fût possiblement bleuie à l'origine puis repatinée)

height. 25 in.; width 20 in.; 64 cm, 50 cm.


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Christie's New York, Important European Furniture, Ceramics, and Carpets, 21 November 2008, lot 20;

Christie's New York, Treasures of France, 24 October 2012, lot 114.

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Christie's New York, Important European Furniture, Ceramics, and Carpets, 21 novembre 2008, lot 20;

Christie's New York, Treasures of France, 24 octobre 2012, lot 114.

P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIeme siècle", Paris, 1987

D. Alcouffe et all, Les bronzes d'ameublement du musée du Louvre", Dijon, 2004

François Rémond (1747-1812) was one of the most famous bronze artists during the end of Louis XVI’s reign. He provided the court and the wealthy aristocracy with a great deal of bronze furnishings in the Etruscan style and genre.


A mention of this model appears in a shipment from the bronze artist François Rémond to the Comte d'Artois at the Temple palace in 1784. It is probably the two pairs kept at the Petit Trianon today. They are described as: "two pairs of lights with three arabesque branches against a lapis-colored backplate as a vase covered with a frieze, a satyr's head and a woman's head ..."


There are color variations on the vase-shaped backplate which forms the stem. A bluish color for those at the Petit Trianon, which renders them closer to those that belonged to the Comte d'Artois. While others bear a gold-colored backplate like those at the Louvre (inv. OA5249). Ours is akin to those kept at Pavlovsk Palace with an antiquity-green patinated backplate. Other details vary, such as the quantity of light branches, either three or five (pair at the Louvre, inv. OA5248), and the presence of small chains between the branches. Exquisite model par excellence, it was adapted by and favored by Thomire who delivered in 1787 for the King’s Salon des Jeux in Saint-Cloud a set of six wall lights whose masks of women and satyr were replaced by identical masks of women and ostrich feathers.