A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE TWO-TONE GILT BRONZE AND BLUED STEEL WALL LIGHTS AFTER THE MODEL BY FRANÇOIS RÉMOND, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Sotheby's New York, 26 October 2010, lot 447

Pierre Verlet, Les bronzes dorés Françaises du XVIIIe siècle (Paris 1987), p.45, no. 8.;

Daniel Alcouffe et al. Gilt-bronzes in the Louvre (Dijon 2004), p.164, no.83.

This pair of wall appliques is inspired by the celebrated model in the goût etrusque, or arabesque, which was delivered in 1784 by the bronzier François Rémond for the Cabinet Turc of the comte d'Artois in the Palais du Temple in Paris, illustrated by Verlet, op. cit., p. 45, no. 38. The two pairs of wall appliques with a blue vase are described: `deux paires de bras à trois branches arabesques sur un vase fond lapis enrichi de frise, tête de satire et de femme.....'. The two wall lights in the Louvre (Alcouffe op. cit., p.164, no.83), are similar but do not have a blue vase and according to him, 'the model met with unquestionable success and was produced with many variants, for the Louvre also owns a pair with five-lights'.