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Dousieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier/Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent.
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Candelabra with three branches exuberantly decorated with leaves on candleholders, leaves twisting down the body and terminating with a cascade of leaves and flowers that rest on a base.
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- Title: Dousieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier/Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent.
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: 1740
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Engraving on white laid paper
- Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux (Decloux 173)
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: M; upper center: Dousieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier; upper right: 73; lower left: J.A. Meissonnier inv.; lower center: Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent/A Paris chez Huquier ruë Saint Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins. C.P.R.; lower right: Huquier, Sculp.
- Dimensions: Platemark: 36.5 x 23 cm (14 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Peter Fuhring, "Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier and His Patrons," in Sarah Coffin et. al, Rococo, The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 (New York: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2008), p. 33, fig. 11.
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