Pair Antique French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Candelabra
This fine pair of dore bronze candelabra in the French Regence style of Juste-Aurele Meissonnier (1695-1750) date from the late 19th century. and measure 26 inches tall and 13 inches across. The artist was an inventive and influential rococo bronzier and architect. Born in Turin, Meissonnier emigrated to France to work in the royal Gobelins factory in 1724, and in 1726 succeeded Jean II Bérain as architect and draughtsman to the Chambre et Cabinet du Roi. His designs appear in the Dousieme livre des Oeuvres de J. A. Messonnier, Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent published by Gabriel Huquier in the 1740s.
A similar candelabrum in the Munich Residenz is illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen (Munich 1986), Vol. I, p.105 fig.2.I.9.
