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Drawing for a Wall Light
Creator
Jean-Louis PrieurFrench Designer · 1765–1785
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Despite numerous commissions from the crowned heads of Europe, accomplished designer and bronze chaser Jean-Louis Prieur still died in poverty. His earliest known work, produced around 1766, was a series of designs for furniture, clocks, vases, wall lights and chandeliers for the Polish king's palace in Warsaw. Since Louis XV's wife was a Polish princess, this commission led to work for the French
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- about 1775
- Medium
- Pen and ink with wash
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
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