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Pair of Standing Candelabra

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French Artist · 1750–1828

Little is known about the life of Lucien-François Feuchère, who, with his father Pierre-François, ran one of the largest Parisian workshops for making gilt bronze objects from the 1760s through the early decades of the 1800s. Together they produced pieces such as clock cases, wall lights, and candelabra for an international clientele, including French, German, and Austrian nobility.

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Date: about 1784–1786
Medium: Blued metal; gilt bronze
Culture: French
Department: Decorative Arts
Institution: Getty Museum

Candelabra such as this pair would have been placed on a mantelpiece, a commode, or a *secrétaire* in a salon of a stylish Parisian townhouse. Scholars use various decorative details to identify and precisely date an object like this. The gilt bronze figures of women with Egyptian headdresses and acanthus leaves clustered with fruit and flowers are of the same form as the mounts on three Chinese porcelain vases now in the Musée du Louvre. The aunts of Louis XVI, princesses Adélaïde and Victoire, ordered these vases from the *marchand-mercier* François-Charles Darnault in 1786 for their château of Bellevue. The candelabra may have been produced at the same time.

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