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Collection Online as of September 28, 2023

Candelabrum

c. 1780–1785

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attributed to Pierre Philippe Thomire

(French, 1751–1843)

cast after a model by

Clodion

(French, 1738–1814)

France, 18th century

Bronze, gilt bronze, gray marble

Overall: 92.8 x 41 x 28 cm (36 9/16 x 16 1/8 x 11 in.); Part 1: 45.8 cm (18 1/16 in.)

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.58.1

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed behind rock: CLODION.

Provenance
Possibly Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870 (Paris, France), possibly by inheritance to his illegitimate son, Richard Wallace, 1870.
Sir Richard Wallace, first baronet, 1818-1890 (Paris, France), upon his death, by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau.
Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace, 1819-97 (Paris, France), upon her death, by bequest to John Murray Scott.
John Murray Scott (1847-1912), upon his death, by bequest to Lady Sackville of Knole.
Lady Sackville of Knole, sold to Jacques Seligman, 1914.
Jacques Seligman (New York, New York), sold to Grace Rainey Rogers, 1920.
Grace Rainey Rogers, died 1943 (New York, New York), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
Exhibition history

CMA 1964: Henry Hawley, Neo-Classicism, Style and Motif, September 23-November 1, 1964, # 45, repr.

Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.58.1