Ref.11695
Antique chandelier in the Regency style with shells

This beautiful antique Regence style chandelier was made in the 19th century. It features three arms of lights in stylized reed, with tulips in satin and shiny molded glass. An important shell rests in the centre of the chandelier.

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Théophile Soyer, The Hunter, 1885

This enameled copper plaque was created by Théophile Soyer in 1885. Théophile Soyer (1853-1940) learned his craft from his father, Paul Soyer, who was already practicing the technique of painted enamels, before joining the École des Beaux-Arts. He studied under Eugène Levasseur and Adolphe Yvon. He began working with enamel in Courbevoie, then joined his father's workshop, which he took over in 1896. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1870, then regularly between 1875 and 1882, as well as at the Expositions of the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1876. His great technical mastery was rewarded with a silver medal at the World's Fair in 1889, and then a gold medal in 1900. Soyer actively participated in the artistic life of his time: he was successively Vice-President of the Chamber of Ceramics and Glassware and President of the Société des Éclectiques, a humorous society founded in 1872 by etchers and poets. He married Eugénie Dejoux, a painter-enameler of Genevan origin, with whom he had a daughter, Jeanne, who worked with her parents before marrying in 1906. Théophile Soyer's work was part of the Neo-Renaissance movement, at a time when past styles were in vogue.