Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes (bronzes d'ameublement) established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft that the French called that of the fondeur-ciseleur, "founder-finisher". In his pre-Revolutionary training, Thomire appeared first as a ciseleur, in the division of duties that went into the production, for example, of a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights delivered for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne: under the general supervision of Hauré, the wax and wooden model was carved by Martin, cast by Forestier, and chased by Thomire, as Pierre Verlet was able to show over fifty years ago.[1]
He had received his training in the workshop of
Under the Empire, Thomire purchased the fashionable premises of the
Under the Restauration, Thomire Duterme et Cie.
In a notable commission for Count
See also
Notes
- ^ Pierre Verlet, "The Wallace Collection and the Study of French Eighteenth-Century Bronzes d'ameublement" The Burlington Magazine 92 No. 567 (June 1950, pp. 154-15) p. 156. The wall-lights are identifiable in the Wallace Collection, London, by their stamped royal inventory numbers.
- ^ 20 septembre 1784. Garniture de vases à bouc, fonte, modèle en cire, monture, dorure au mat noted in Pierre Verlet, "Orders for Sèvres from the French Court' The Burlington Magazine 96 No. 616 (July 1954, pp. 202–206) p. 206.
- ^ Lignereux had previously been the partner of Dominique Daguerre, who had settled in London.
- ^ David Harris Cohen, "The History of the Maréchal de Villars Group" Metropolitan Museum Journal 14 (1979, pp. 185–189), p. 185.
- ^ Now in Vienna.
- ^ Now at the Louvre.
- ^ Niclausse 1947:47.
- ^ Traced in detail in Cohen 1979.
- ^ Until 1819, thenceforth simply Thomire et Cie.
- ^ The future Charles X of France.
- ^ According to a document of 25 February 1818, noted by Cohen 1979:188.
- ^ See James David Draper, "The Fortunes of Two Napoleonic Sculptural Projects" Metropolitan Museum Journal 14 (1979), pp. 173–184.
- ^ Now in the Wrightsman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Preston Remington, "The Story of a Malachite Vase"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 3.6 (February 1945), pp. 142–145.
Further reading
- Hélène Cavalié, "Thomire", Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, volume 109, 2020 (éléments nouveaux sur la famille notamment).
- Juliette Niclausse, Thomire, fondeur-ciseleur (1751–1843) (Paris) 1947.
- OCLC 63693193.
- OCLC 62701407.
- Milena Hübner, Surtout de table by Pierre-Philippe Thomire at the Wilanów Palace, Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 68 (3), 2020, 357–390. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM68.2020.3.005
External links
- Grand Ormolu / Surtout de table by Pierre-Philippe Thomire at the Wilanów Palace Museum
- Pierre-Philippe Thomire in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
- Mobilier national : Thomire