Unknown artist, eighteenth centurycircle of Jacques Roëttiers, 1707-1784, Frenchand circle of Jacques-Nicolas Roëttiers, 1736-1788, French
Title:
Design for a Candlestick
Date:
between 1770 and 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (31.4 × 19.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.2.65
Gallery Label:
This scale drawing for a silver candlestick is one of thirteen designs for Rococo furniture and ornament (B1975.2.56 – B.1975.2.68) from the hand of more than one artist. All were long assumed to be British and to have been made in the mid-eighteenth century but more recently both Tim Knox and Tessa Murdoch identified this drawing as the work of a French designer. In 2015 Paul Micio attributed it to a French ornemaniste of the 1770s working in the circle of Jacques Roëttiers and his son, Jacques-Nicolas Roëttiers.
