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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