Auction on
04 December 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
9-11, rue Royale - 77300 Fontainebleau
The torchère in her room carried the flame of a love for antiquity: a cause Juliette Récamier promoted through the work of Louis-Martin Berthault, who refurbished her private mansion with help from Charles Percier.
Consulate period, after Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Louis-Martin Berthault (1771-1823), green-painted and gilt wood torchère with a gilt bronze nine-light candelabra, embellished with a pineapple in sheet metal and gilt bronze containing a tenth light, h. 194 cm/76.4 in. Estimate: €60,000/80,000
Consulate period, after Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Louis-Martin Berthault (1771-1823), green-painted and gilt wood torchère with a gilt bronze nine-light candelabra, embellished with a pineapple in sheet metal and gilt bronze containing a tenth light, h. 194 cm/76.4 in. Estimate: €60,000/80,000
This torchère illuminated the most brilliant minds of her time, who would meet in Juliette Récamier 's room, where she held a salon. The Merveilleuse also contributed to the spread of the "Etruscan" style as one of the first to fall in love with it, and she even dressed in the "Greek mode”. She was the leading advocate of this passion for classical antiquity, which became widespread during the Empire. Her private mansion in Rue du Mont-Blanc, in the fashionable Chaussée-d'Antin district in Paris, was a model for the generation…
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