Pair Of Torches From The Empire Period Attributed To Claude Galle.

Pair of torches in chiseled bronze and mercury-gilt. The base is richly decorated with pairs of doves, arrows, quivers and stars. It was fluted, decorated with guilloches with a trellis, has three heads of women draped and summed up by a basin and the palm-leaf binet.
Empire period work attributed to Claude Galle.

Claude Galle(1759-1815) bronzier Supplier of the crown’s storage, under the direction of sculptor Jean Hauré from 1786-88. Claude Galle worked with André Antoine Ravrio, Pierre-Philippe Thomire, among many craftsmen; also he supplied the majority of the furnishing bronzes to the Château de Fontainebleau under the Empire and received numerous imperial orders for the palaces of Saint-MichelCloud, the Trianons, the Tuileries, Compiègne and Rambouillet. He supplied the Italian palaces of Monte Cavallo in Rome and Stupinigi near Turin.