About the Artwork
Candelabra
ca. 1766
Louis-Nicolas Victoire, known as Victor Louis (Designer) French, 1731-1806 Jean Louis Prieur (Maker) French, 1725-1785
Gilt bronze
Overall: 26 × 14 1/4 × 12 3/4 inches (66 × 36.2 × 32.4 cm)
Furniture Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.213
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, inside base: A.
Provenance
Prince Frodrow [or Feodrov
possibly Prince Feodor, 1898-1968] (St. Petersburg, Russia)
until ca. 1932, government of the USSR
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
1935-1971, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Iskierski, Stanislas. Les bronzes du chateau royal et du Palais de Lazienki. Warsaw, 1929, p. 22, no. 7.
Duveen, Joseph. A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1939, vol. 1, n.p.
Lorentz, Stanislaw. "Victor Louis a Varsovie." Revue historique de Bordeaux 7 (1958): pp. 233-237.
Pariset, Francois-Georges. "Jeszcze o Pracach Wiktor Louisa dla zamku Warsawkiego." Biuletyn Historii Sztuki 24 (1962): pp. 135-155.
Pariset, Francois-Georges. "Le roi Stanislas-Auguste Poniatowski et les arts: son attitude artistique a propos des projets de Victor Louis en 1776." In Utopie et institutions au XVIIIe siecle. Paris, 1963, pp. 201-09, pl. 22.
Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.
The Age of Neoclassicism. Exh. cat., The Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1972, no. 1766.
Eriksen, Svend. Early Neo-Classicism in France. London, 1974, pp. 352, 390-92, pls. 205, 405, 408.
100 of the Finest Drawings from the Polish Collections. Exh. cat., Heim Gallery. London, 1980, no. 68.
Darr, Alan Phipps. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, (ill.) p. 17 (fig. 001).
Ottomeyer, Hans, and Peter Proschel. Vergoldete Bronzen. Munich, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 166-67, vol. 2, p. 556.
Dell, T. et al The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 29, pp. 122-125, (color ill.) p. 123.
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Louis-Nicolas Victoire, known as Victor Louis; Jean Louis Prieur, Candelabra, ca. 1766, gilt bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.213.
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