A Pair of Empire Gilt-Bronze Three-Branch Wall-Lights attributed to Lucien-François Feuchère, circa 1815-1820

Two pairs of wall lights of this model were delivered to the Garde-Meuble du Roi by the Parisian bronze manufacturer Lucien-François Feuchère (1780–1828) in June 1820. One pair was sent to the l'Hôtel du ministère de la Maison du Roi in 1822 and the other to the Tuileries Palace in 1823; both pairs remain today in the collections of the Mobilier National (Marie-France Dupuy-Baylet, L'Heure, le Feu, La Lumière. Les Bronzes du Mobilier National 1800-1870, Dijon 2010, no.145 p.265; one pair illustrated).

A single example of the model from a private collection is illustrated in Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen (Munich 1986), vol. II, p. 668, fig. 2, and another pair was recently sold Artcurial Paris, 13 December 2023, lot 95.