PAIR OF LARGE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARON GUY DE ROTHSCHILD (1909-2007) IN THE HÔTEL LAMBERT IN PARIS

Paris, Louis XV period, 1745-1749.
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS-THOMAS GERMAIN (PARIS, 1726-1791, SCULPTEUR ORFÈVRE DU ROI IN 1748)

A ‘C’ couronné (crowned C) mark visible on each candelabrum, indicating a tax on metals decreed by the parliament of Paris in February 1745, which, being very unpopular, was finally abolished in February 1749.

H. 60 cm (23 ¾ in.); W. 66 and 72 cm (26 et 28 ½ in.); D. 25 cm. (10 in.).

PROVENANCE: collection of Baron Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) and of his wife, Marie-Hélène (1927-1996), née Van Zuylen Van Nyevelt Van de Haar, at the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; after by descendance until today.

LITERATURE: Gabriel Henriot, Encyclopédie du luminaire, formes et décors apparentés depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à 1870, Tome V, XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Les éditions Guérinet, 1934, pl. 165, fig. n° 3; Claude Frégnac,Belles Demeures de Paris, 16e-19e siècle, Paris, Hachette Réalités, 1977, p. 75 et 254.

Ill. 1 – Elevation en face des croisées du Sallon au premier etage des nouveaux appartements du Palais Royal, engraving by A. Le Canu after Pierre Contant d’Ivry published in 1762 by Denis Diderot and d’Alembert, Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication, à Paris, chez Briasson, David l’aîné, Le Breton, Durand, 1762, Architecture et parties qui en dépendent, pl. XXIX.

Ill. 2 – View of one of our two candelabra at the Rothschild residence, decorating in 1975 the salon of the Hôtel of Princess Mathilde, at 10 rue de Courcelles in Paris, shortly before their move to the Hôtel Lambert.

Ill. 3 – Alexandre Serebriakoff (1907-1994), view of one of our two candelabra decorating the library of Baron Guy de Rothschild at the Hôtel Lambert, in Paris, watercolor, signed and dated 1983.



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