Artist: Louis-Auguste Hervieu (1765 – 1811) – attributed to –
Date: Empire period
Material: Patinated bronze, golden owls
Measurement: 71 cm (high)
Literature: J.-D. Augarde, ‘Une nouvelle vision du bronze et des bronziers sous le Directoire et l’Empire’, dans L’Estampille l’Objet d’art, #398, january 2005, p. 80-84
A variant of this pair of candelabra is now preserved at the Grand Trianon in Versailles, illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, The Grand Trianon, Furniture and Works of Art, Paris, 1975, p. 117