The design of these wall lights derive from a drawing executed circa 1770 by Richard de Lalonde, in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, see C. Bremer-David, The J. Paul Getty Handbook, Malibu, 1993, p. 180, fig. 304. The design was formerly discussed in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 172, fig. 3.5.3 and was then attributed to Jean-Louis Prieur. A similar set of six wall-lights was acquired by J. Paul Getty in the 1970s (purchased in 1974 and 1977 from Alexander and Berendt Ltd. as a set of four and a pair respectively) and are now in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. A watercolor depicting the Grand Salon of the château de Chantilly shows a pair of wall-lights similar to this model. The watercolor is part of an album which was presented to Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich of Russia in 1782, but has since been returned to the Musée Condé at Chantilly. The Grand Duke subsequently acquired a set of four identical wall-lights for the so-called Tapestry Study at Pavlovsk, see E. Ducamp, Pavlovsk, The Collection, Paris, 1993, p. 178 and fig. 52. Similar wall lights include a pair which was almost certainly acquired by Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (d. 1836) for Panshanger, Hertfordshire, sold Christie’s, London, 7 December 1995, lot 19; a pair sold Christie’s, London, 5 July 2001, lot 4; a pair sold Christie's, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 39; and most recently a matched set of four sold Christie’s, New York, 10 April 2018, lot 28.