Hall of mirrors, Versailles

The Luxury of Light in 18th Century France

Grand Gallery, New Palace, Palace Schleißheim

Rushlight

18th century dictionary entry about the manufacture of candles

Simple Candlesticks

Baroque

Rococo

Neoclassical

De Troy, Declaration of Love, 1731, Oil painting

Nicholas de Larmessin, figure of a merchant selling mirrors and chandeliers, beginning eighteenth-century, engraving

Ceiling Lights

Chandeliers

Lanterns

Hall of mirrors, Versailles

Ball of the Yew Trees, Charles Nicolas Cochin, engraving Held at Versailles in 1746

View of a ceiling with stucco decoration, 18th century architectural manual

Crystal chandelier, hôtel of Samuel-Jacques Bernard, 1730-1740, now at Waddesdon Manor

Hôtel of Samuel Jacques Bernard ,ground plan , 46 Rue de Bac, Paris

The Arnolfini Marriage, Jan van Eyck ,1434

Mme Pompadour by Francois Boucher ,1748

One of two bronze chandelier, ca. 1755, possibly Edme-Jean Gallien,

originally at Crécy now in the Mazarin Library, Paris

Crecy, given to Mme Pompadour in 1746

Chandelier decorated with Vincennes porcelain flowers, 1750

Meissen figures intergrated into a 18th Century clock, Also found in chandeliers, wall lights and candelabra

Lantern, ca. 1752, with Vincennes flowers

Louis XV by Quentin de la Tour(1704 -1788) , 1748

Chateau Bellvue: Built for Mme Pompadour in 1750

Wall lights

Wall lights

Chimney lights

Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger, Interior with Card Players, 1751, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Putti (angel-like figures)Chimney lights,

Waddeston Manor, England

Grand salon, Palais Royal, engraving.

François Thomas Germain, set of four wall lights, 1756, in the Palais Royal

the chambre de parade and the game room now at the Getty Museum in Malibu.

Palais Royal, ground plan, chambre de parade, the game room and the grand salon

Chimney lights, 1746, designed for the hôtel de Tugny Possibly by Antoine Leliève after designs by Contant d’Ivry,

Hôtel de Tugny, Groundplan

Jean-Claude Duplessis, wall lights, 1760-1761, Sèvres porcelain, Madame Pompadour’s bedroom in the hôtel d’Evreux,

now at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Groundplan, hôtel d’Evreux

Portable Lights

Candle sticks

Candelabras

Thomas Germain, drawing of a candelabra delivered to Versailles in 1747 for Louis XV,

gold, melted down

GERMANY 18th Century

Munich

Palace Schleißheim

Palace Nymphenburg Palace Residenz

Max Emanuel II (1662 – 1726)

Karl Albrecht (1697 – 1745)

Palace Schleißheim

Palace Nymphenburg

Amalienburg (1734-1739)

French Chandelier (1745 -1749) Sold at Sotheby‘s March 16, 2005 for €1300000

Chandelier by Ai Weiwei sold at Sothebys September 20, 2007

for $657,000