Ontwerp voor een zilveren kandelaar gedecoreerd met twee kinderen 1738 - 1749

Louis Desplaces made this print of a design for a silver candlestick sometime between 1682 and 1739. The French decorative arts during this period flourished under the patronage of the aristocracy. Prints like these served as crucial channels for disseminating artistic ideas and styles, enabling designers and artisans to share their work and inspire new creations. This particular design reflects the elaborate taste of the era, featuring playful putti, those chubby cherubic figures, intertwined with swirling, organic forms typical of the rococo style. These objects would furnish the lavish homes of the wealthy and reinforce their social standing. To truly understand this design, we can look to period inventories, architectural treatises, and social histories to reconstruct the world in which it was created and consumed, and the power structures that supported it.