Pair of Altar Candlesticks

Applied Arts of Europe

1862

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French, 1814–1879
Made by Placide-Benoît-Marie Poussielgue-Rusand
French, 1824–1889
Paris, France

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Title: Pair of Altar Candlesticks
Place: Paris (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1862
Medium: Gilded cast bronze
Dimensions: 1: 42.3 × 20.8 × 18.6 cm (16 5/8 × 8 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.); 2: 41.6 × 20.4 × 18.1 cm (16 3/8 × 8 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Patricia and Martin Levy in honor of Christopher Monkhouse
Reference Number: 2017.132.1-2
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Catalogue commercial. Manufacture d’orfèvrerie, de bronzes et de chasublerie, Maison P. Poussielgue-Rusand (Paris: 1893), 108–09, no. 175.

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889.

Private collection, France; sold to David and Constance Yates, 2016; sold to H. Blairman and Sons, London, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.

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