A PAIR OF GORN BRONZE AND PATINTED BRONZE... - Lot 253

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A PAIR OF GORN BRONZE AND PATINTED BRONZE... - Lot 253 - Osenat

A PAIR OF GORN BRONZE AND PATINTED BRONZE APPLIQUES representing winged putti holding a bouquet with five branches of light in the form of cornucopia decorated with volutes and ending in openwork palmette with a fleuron. By Thomire Duterme et Cie. Empire period (mounted with electricity (two branches restored on a sconce)) H: 60.5 cm Provenance: Le Fuel collection and remained in his descendants to this day. A watercolor drawing, reproduced opposite, is kept in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs 1. This pair of sconces is to be compared with a pair delivered in 1809 by Thomire-Duterme et Cie for the bedroom on the first floor 2 and with three sconces for the grand salon of the Empress' small apartment on the ground floor of the Fontainebleau palace, of the same model and made of gilt bronze. Mentioned in the memorandum of November 18, 1809 as such: "A pair of arms representing a child finished by leaves with ornaments which holds in its hands above the head a flower from which come out five branches with leaves and scrolls of ornaments all that composes the aforementioned arms in chased and gilded bronze ()....800fr " This model with a chubby putto was very successful during the Empire, which led to several variations of the model and to the commissioning of several bronze workers by the Garde-Meuble 3: The following year, the Garde-Meuble commissioned a variation from Claude Galle (1759-1815) for the salon des Malachites at the Grand Trianon in Versailles. The bronzier André-Antoine Ravrio (1759-1814) is also solicited and delivers a new variant in smaller dimensions, with six lights in the shape of a hunting horn. Thomire delivers a new model for the bedroom of the princes in the palace of Fontainebleau. From 1765, Philippe Thomire (1751-1743) studied sculpture at the Académie de Saint-Luc under Augustin Pajou and Jean-Antoine Houdon, but it was difficult for him to afford the considerable expenses of statuary. Born into a family of chiselers, he gave up sculpture and entered the workshop of the bronzemaker Pierre Gouthière, where he acquired a perfect knowledge of the trade, particularly gilding. He set up his own business in 1776 in the rue Saint-Martin, and after Gouthière's bankruptcy in the mid-1780s, he became the most renowned chiseller. He buys on November 12, 1804, for 15 000 francs, his company from Lignereux and associates with his two sons-in-law Beauvisage and Carbonelle, as well as with Duterme, announced in the Journal de Paris, on Friday 30 Frimaire An XIII and Sunday 2 Nivose An XIII:" THOMIRE, DUTERME & Cie, successors of M. Lignereux, furniture merchant, rue Taitbout, n°41, give notice that as of the 1st of November, the business of EBENISTERIE, BRONZES, DORURES & curiosities that the aforementioned sieur Ligneureux held, will be opened on their behalf & that they have joined the factory of Bronzes & Gildings that the sieur THOMIRE held for a long time, rue Taitbout, n°6, so that in the future the two houses will become one" Under the name Thomire, Duterme et Cie they become the biggest suppliers of gilded bronze, employing up to seven hundred workers. Freed from the corporatist straitjacket, Thomire was led to transform his profession, until then a craft industry, into an industry. He then experienced a significant development. He was the first bronze worker to participate in the 1806 Exhibition of Industrial Products, where he received a gold medal. The company experienced some difficulties at the time of the continental blockade: "This manufacturer succeeded Mr. Lignereux and successfully undertook both furniture and bronzes" (gold medal at the last Industry Exhibition). He participated in the Exhibition of Industrial Products in 1809, where he won a gold medal. Supplier of their imperial and royal Majesties, important orders take place after the marriage of the emperor with the archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810: one of the most important is that of the vermeil cradle of the King of Rome in Saint-Cloud, ordered in 1811 by the prefect of the Seine Frochot, in the name of the city of Paris. 1 - Album Maciet 93, drawing CD 376 2 - Jean-Pierre Samoyault, " Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Ier Empire " Musée National du Château de Fontainebleau,1989, RMN Ed., p.140, 3 - Daniel Alcouffe, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Gérard Mabille, Les Bronzes d'ameublement du Louvre, Paris 2004, Faton Ed., p. 272, n°135. 5 - Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, München 1986, Klinkhardt & Biermann. Volume 2 pp. 660-661. PAIR OF WALLS IN GILDED BRONZE BY THOMIRE DUTERME ET CIE. EMPIRE PERIOD

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