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Hall of mirrors, Versailles
The Luxury of Light in 18th Century France
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Grand Gallery, New Palace, Palace Schleißheim
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Rushlight
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18th century dictionary entry about the manufacture of candles
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Simple Candlesticks
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Baroque
Rococo
Neoclassical
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De Troy, Declaration of Love, 1731, Oil painting
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Nicholas de Larmessin, figure of a merchant selling mirrors and chandeliers, beginning eighteenth-century, engraving
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Ceiling Lights
Chandeliers
Lanterns
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Hall of mirrors, Versailles
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Ball of the Yew Trees, Charles Nicolas Cochin, engraving Held at Versailles in 1746
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View of a ceiling with stucco decoration, 18th century architectural manual
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Crystal chandelier, hôtel of Samuel-Jacques Bernard, 1730-1740, now at Waddesdon Manor
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Hôtel of Samuel Jacques Bernard ,ground plan , 46 Rue de Bac, Paris
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The Arnolfini Marriage, Jan van Eyck ,1434
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Mme Pompadour by Francois Boucher ,1748
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One of two bronze chandelier, ca. 1755, possibly Edme-Jean Gallien,
originally at Crécy now in the Mazarin Library, Paris
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Crecy, given to Mme Pompadour in 1746
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Chandelier decorated with Vincennes porcelain flowers, 1750
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Meissen figures intergrated into a 18th Century clock, Also found in chandeliers, wall lights and candelabra
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Lantern, ca. 1752, with Vincennes flowers
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Louis XV by Quentin de la Tour(1704 -1788) , 1748
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Chateau Bellvue: Built for Mme Pompadour in 1750
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Wall lights
Wall lights
Chimney lights
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Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger, Interior with Card Players, 1751, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Putti (angel-like figures)Chimney lights,
Waddeston Manor, England
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Grand salon, Palais Royal, engraving.
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François Thomas Germain, set of four wall lights, 1756, in the Palais Royal
the chambre de parade and the game room now at the Getty Museum in Malibu.
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Palais Royal, ground plan, chambre de parade, the game room and the grand salon
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Chimney lights, 1746, designed for the hôtel de Tugny Possibly by Antoine Leliève after designs by Contant d’Ivry,
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Hôtel de Tugny, Groundplan
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Jean-Claude Duplessis, wall lights, 1760-1761, Sèvres porcelain, Madame Pompadour’s bedroom in the hôtel d’Evreux,
now at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Groundplan, hôtel d’Evreux
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Portable Lights
Candle sticks
Candelabras
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Thomas Germain, drawing of a candelabra delivered to Versailles in 1747 for Louis XV,
gold, melted down
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GERMANY 18th Century
Munich
Palace Schleißheim
Palace Nymphenburg Palace Residenz
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Max Emanuel II (1662 – 1726)
Karl Albrecht (1697 – 1745)
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Palace Schleißheim
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Palace Nymphenburg
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Amalienburg (1734-1739)
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French Chandelier (1745 -1749) Sold at Sotheby‘s March 16, 2005 for €1300000
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Chandelier by Ai Weiwei sold at Sothebys September 20, 2007
for $657,000