Saint-Sulpice, l'écrin d'un collectionneur
Saint-Sulpice, l'écrin d'un collectionneur
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
decorated with foliages; (fitted for electricity)
(2)
Haut. 64 cm, larg. 48 cm;
Height. 25 ¼ in, width. 18 ¾ in
Late collection Jean Pétin, Rue de Varenne, Paris
J. Wilhelm, C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de France, 16e - 19e siècle, Paris, 1977, p. 99 (ill.)
Related literature:
V. Viale, Exhibition catalog, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin, 1963.
A. Baudi di Vesme, Schede Vesme: L'arte in Piemonte dal. XVI al XVIII secolo, vol. 2, Turin, 1966, p. 598-599.
M. Tavella, Due coppie di appliques in bronzo dorato di Francesco Ladatte, in Antologia di Bella Arti, edited by Alvar Gonzales-Palacios, Studi sul Settecento III, Turin, 2003, p.53.
Ladatte did not return to Turin until 1774, where he was appointed sculptor to King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in 1775 with an annual salary of nearly 800 livres. During this period, he created candelabra and girandoles in the French Rococo style he had learned during his training in Paris, adding the exuberance of the Piedmontese style inspired by the work of Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736). From 1747 to 1750, he delivered candelabra and silver platters for the superb Stupinigi hunting lodge, and notably, the famous stag that crowns the main roof. Appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture of Turin in 1778, he passed away in the same city on January 18, 1787, at the age of 80. Even as classicism reached its peak in France, he remained faithful to his brilliantly virtuosic Rococo style.
Our wall-lights share several common features with known models by Ladatte:
The treatment of the foliage on the sockets and basins resembles a pair of wall-lights from the Louvre Museum and illustrated in M. Tavella, op. cit., p. 56-57. The faces of the two figures are reminiscent of another pair of wall-lights sold by Sotheby's, B.B.S. A Tribute, on June 30, 2016, lot 92. The full, rounded casting is also typical of his work, as seen in a pair of wall-lights preserved at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, for example.
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