Candelabra

ca. 1766

Louis-Nicolas Victoire, known as Victor Louis, Designer Jean Louis Prieur, Maker

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Title Candelabra

Artwork Date ca. 1766

Makers Louis-Nicolas Victoire, known as Victor Louis (Designer) French, 1731-1806 Jean Louis Prieur (Maker) French, 1725-1785

Medium Gilt bronze

Dimensions Overall: 25 7/8 × 14 1/2 × 12 1/2 inches (65.7 × 36.8 × 31.8 cm)

Classification Furniture Accessories

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.214

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Inscriptions Inscribed, inside base: D.

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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Published References

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, 71.214.