sht. 5
Giuseppe Valadier Luigi Valadier
B 1770
C c. 1790
B 355 x 230 mm
C 275 x 405 mm
A
Giuseppe Valadier, Silver oil lamp, c. 1800-10, graphite, pen, grey ink, grey wash on paper, 345 x 200 mm.
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 82.
B
Luigi Valadier, Oil lamp for Prince Marcantonio Borghese, 1770, graphite, pen, brown ink, brown, grey and reddish wash on paper, 355 x 230 mm., numbered upper left: “16”; inscription in pen on the left, below the end and along the margin: “A”; “A”.
The Borghese manuscripts in the Vatican’s Secret Archive (Archivio Borghese, 5275; see González-Palacios 2018, p. 120, note 30) include a request for payment, addressed to Prince Marcantanio Borghese by Luigi Valadier on 15 March 1770, for “a four-light oil lamp all in shaped, decorated and chased silver, with a handle emulating classical consular fasces. The four spouts are in the shape of ships’ prows of the kind seen on ancient rostral columns”.
The drawing is the design for an oil lamp made for Marcantonio Borghese but as yet untraced.
Bibliography: González-Palacios 2018, p. 72, fig. 3_13; González-Palacios 2019, p. 257; Leone 2019a, p. 82; Leone 2019b, pp. 74, 78.
C
Giuseppe Valadier, Desk set in ormolu or silver gilt, white marble and polychrome marbles, c. 1790, graphite, pen, grey ink, yellow, brown, greenish, grey and dark red wash on paper, 275 x 405 mm., numbered upper left: “7”.
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 82.
