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Two designs for candlesticks
Also titled Twee ontwerpen voor kandelaars
Giuseppe Cades (Rome, 1750–1799)
c. 1795
- Medium
- paper, ink, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- design drawing
- Dimensions
- height 198 mm x width 79 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Decorative Art Fund/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The artist, probably a sculptor, represents candlesticks whose main component is formed of a human figure. They were probably intended to be executed in bronze. The style is strongly influenced by Italian models; it is conceivable that the drawings are in fact Italian.
