PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABERS WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS...
PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABERS WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS AND A CENTRAL LIGHT, Louis-Philippe–Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with a brown patina and Neoclassical decoration
Hollowed-out triangular base with water-leaf molding
H. 62 cm
D. 26 cm
(gilding tarnished; missing their central candle holders)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABERS WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS AND A CENTRAL LIGHT, Louis-Philippe–Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with a brown patina and Neoclassical decoration
Hollowed-out triangular base with water-leaf molding
H. 62 cm
D. 26 cm
(gilding tarnished; missing their central candle holders)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
