Two Chandelier Designs
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Designs for two chandeliers. The chandelier on the left is in the form of a torn, held up by chains, and with four arms for candles, formed from roses and leaves. The shaft of the torch is fluted and has crossing branches of leaves that extend below the base of the torch. The chandelier on the right has a shallow, gadrooned bowl, out of which acanthus leaves curl and transform into the four arms for candles. A garland of small flowers is draped between the chandelier arms. Both chandeliers have a scale bar of two French feet ("2 Pieds") below. The chandelier on the right has a cross section below it. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1775-1788
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-330-46
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Etching on off-white laid paper
- published in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1921-6-330-46
