Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Pair of Candlesticks

AfterFrench, born Italy, 1695–1750, master 1724
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Pair of Candlesticks
Date1735–1740
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsEach: 12 1/2 × 7 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (31.8 × 20 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineHorace Wood Brock Collection, museum purchase funded by Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2021.373.1,.2
Not on view

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Provenance[Frank Berendt, London]; Horace Wood Brock, Massachusetts, USA, c.1986; MFAH, 2021.

Exhibition HistorySplendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, January 22–May 17, 2009

On view 2010—2015 at the Frick Collection




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