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A bronze candle-stand 1876.

Designed by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79).

Manufactured by Poussielgue-Rusand (1824–89), 3 Rue Cassette, Paris.

Provenance: Saint-François-Xavier College Chapel (built 1873), Vannes, France 1876 - 1965, Leuven, Flanders art market 1965 - 1970’s, private collection Belgium since the 1970's, Bruges art market 2023.

Cast bronze.

Inscribed:

'ST FRANCOIS-XAVIER VANNES 1ere COMMUNION 1876'

120 cm high.

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc designed a set of six candle-stands of this model for the high altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in December 1865. This set remains in the collection of Notre Dame Cathedral.

A further example lacking a pricket spike, was exhibited by Poussielgue-Rusand at the 1867 Paris Exhibition.

The Saint-François-Xavier College Chapel was built in 1873 to the designs of the amateur architect and Jesuit Father, Magloire Tournesac (1805-1875). Presumably this candle-stand was also once part of a set of six for the altar, as per the original set at Notre Dame.