Study for a ""Torchère""

ca. 1852

19.7 cm 30.5 cm

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On the base of the torchère, or candlestick, is the monogram LN for (Charles) Louis Napoleon, who was elected president of France in December 1848 and became Emperor Napoleon III four years later. Barye, who identified himself as a producer of decorative works of art as well a...

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Émile Martin; Mme Martin Zedee, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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