Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Study for a "Torchère" - Walters 372274.jpg On the base of the torchère or candlestick is the monogram LN for Charles Louis Napoleon who was elected president of France in December 1848 and became Emperor Napoleon III four years later Barye who identified himself as a producer of decorative works of art as well as sculpture might have submitted this design to Joachim Visconti 1791-1853 the architect who began Napoleon III's additions to the Louvre ca 1852 brown and red ink on white paper cm 30 5 19 7 accession number 37 2274 40141 Émile Martin Mme Martin Zedee by inheritance Walters Art Museum 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Palm Beach 2007-2008 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Torchères stands Drawings in the Walters Art Museum Drawings and paintings by Antoine-Louis Barye |