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Four Wall Lights
Creator
Philippe CaffieriFrench Artist · 1714–1774
All works by this person →Bronze caster Philippe Caffieri was an astute businessman. Under his direction, the Caffieri family workshop prospered, allowing him to become a wealthy patron of the arts. He invested in drawings and paintings by such artists as Rembrandt, François Boucher, and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin. Philippe went into partnership with his father Jacques Caffieri in 1747 and then succeeded his father as *s
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1765–1770
- Medium
- Gilt bronze
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
One of the most famous bronze casters of the 1700s, Philippe Caffieri created gilt-bronze objects, like these wall lights, for royalty and nobility throughout Europe. Caffieri produced wall lights of this design, decorated with urns and garlands, for the king of Poland. In 1769, Caffieri sent a letter to the king, telling him that he had sent nineteen pairs of this kind of wall light, twelve large and seven smaller, to the Polish royal household. The museum’s wall lights may have been among those delivered to the palace in Warsaw. A drawing that Caffieri made to show his ideas for these fittings still exists in Poland. The museum has another group of wall lights of this design (see [82.DF.35](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/5741/philippe-caffieri-pair-of-wall-lights-french-about-1765-1770/)).
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