About This Artwork

Made by Cornelius and Company (1839-1851)
Designed by Isaac F. Baker

Girandoles, 1848/51

Gilt bronze, marble, glass
h. 45.1 cm (17 3/4 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Judith Carmack York, 1995.102a-c

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940," June 28-October 13, 2003.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 157-59, no. 69.

Ownership History

Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, by 1995; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.