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Candlestick, Greek Style with Antique Medallions
Antoine-Louis Baryemodel n.d., cast c. 1865/1874
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Candlestick, Greek Style with Antique Medallions
- Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
- Date Created: model n.d., cast c. 1865/1874
- Physical Dimensions: overall (height by diameter): 26.35 × 11.75 cm (10 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased 1874 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The sculpture is one of 116 bronzes acquired in two groups directly from the artist, one in 1873 and the other in 1874. According to the _Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_, the group acquired in 1874 was ordered for the Corcoran by William T. Walters (1819-1894), the prominent Baltimore collector and a Corcoran trustee, through George A. Lucas (1824-1909), an American-born dealer living in Paris. (See: "_Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_," 1873-1946, Record Group 5.1 [COR.0005.1.RG], Gallery registrar's office records, 1869-2007, Series 1: Accessions 1869- [inclusive], Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC; accessed on-line 30 November 2016: https://archive.org/details/corc_registerofbronzes).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: bronze
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