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PAIRE DE TORCHÈRES MONUMENTALES D`ÉPOQUE NAPOLÉON III

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€ 113 400
Auction dateClassic
22.11.2022 16:00UTC +02:00
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ID 859321
Lot 34 | PAIRE DE TORCHÈRES MONUMENTALES D'ÉPOQUE NAPOLÉON III
PAIRE DE TORCHÈRES MONUMENTALES D'ÉPOQUE NAPOLÉON III

D'APRÈS UN MODÈLE DE LOUIS-CHARLES-HIPPOLYTE BUHOT, PROBABLEMENT FONDUE PAR GRAUX-MARLY, TROISIÈME QUART DU XIXe SIÈCLE

En bronze doré et patiné, marbre et cristal taillé, représentant deux figures d'Indien et d'Indienne d'Amérique, chacune portant sur ses épaules un enfant et soutenant un bouquet à huit bras de lumière surmonté de quatre feuilles de palmier à pendeloques, terminées par une flamme

H. totale : 293 cm. (115 1/4 in.) ; D. des bouquets supérieurs : 60 cm. (23 1/2 in.) ; D. des bases : 48 cm. (19 in.)





Literature

Bibliographie comparative :

É. Gorges (dir.), Revue de l'Exposition universelle, deuxième série, I - Bronzes d'art, Paris, 1855, p. 63.

H. Tresca (dir.), Visite à l'Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855, Paris, 1855, pp. 643 et 645.

J.-J. Arnoux (dir.), Le travail universel. Revue complète des oeuvres de l'art et de l'industrie exposées à Paris en 1855, Paris, vol. 2, 1856, p. 221.

J.-M. Moulin, Le château de Compiègne, Paris, 1987, p. 89.

Cat. expo., Napoléon III et la reine Victoria. Une visite à l'Exposition universelle de 1855, Paris, 2008, p. 228, n°133.



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A PAIR OF NAPOLÉON III MONUMENTAL PATINATED AND GILT-BRONZE AND MARBLE TORCHÈRES, CAST AFTER A MODEL BY LOUIS-CHARLES-HIPPOLYTE BUHOT, POSSIBLY BY THE GRAUX-MARLY FOUNDRY, THIRD QUARTER 19th CENTURY
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