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Rare Pair of Empire Gilt Bronze Chenets (Andirons)

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Each with an eagle holding a salamander and a torch, raised on a plinth decorated with sphinxes and laurels. Modeled after Pierre Gouthière, originally made for the great gallery of the Hôtel of the Duchesse de Mazarin in 1781, and then modernized to the gout du jour for Napoleon at La Malmaison. Louise-Jeanne de Durfort-Duras, duchesse de Mazarin (1735–1781), daughter-in-law of the famous collector and patron le duc d’Aumont, continuously altered and updated the design and contents of her Parisian hotel from 1767, when she acquired the property (the Hôtel de la Roche-sur-Yon), until her death in 1781. The duchesse de Mazarin belonged to the elite class of eighteenth-century aristocratic patrons capable of commissioning comprehensive renovation schemes, in which the design of every piece of furniture, every furnishing, and all the decoration was supervised or conceived by a leading neoclassical architect, in her case Belanger. Gouthière conceived a few pieces for the gallery including the famous console now at the Frick Collection. The hotel was demolished in 1845 to make way for the École des Beaux-Arts. There is a pair of the original model at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, gift of Hamilton Rice. See Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Picard 1987 p. 313 and Vergoldete Bronzen.

Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)Depth: 7 in (17.78 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
First Empire (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Early 19th Century
Condition:
Regilded.
Seller Location:
Kittery Point, ME
Reference Number:
Seller: 10171stDibs: LU8376753724

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