Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière), ca. 1787–88

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Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière), ca. 1787–88, French, Paris, Gilt bronze, Each: H. 32 x W. 15 x D. 10 1 /4 in. ( x x cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Music was one of Marie-Antoinette’s lifelong diversions. She was taught to perform and sing when young in Vienna, where the opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) was her tutor. She amused herself with music several hours a day at the French court and was a devotee of the opera

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