Raingo Frères - "The Japanese" Wall-Light, France circa 1860

Large "Japonisme" six-light wall-light in patinated bronze with gold and silver highlights attributed to Raingo Frères, representing an elegant young woman in traditional Japanese outfit, seated on a branch of a Japanese rosebush whose flowers are formed of luminous corollas, and holding out a rose from her left hand.

Biography :
The company Raingo Frères, founded in Paris in 1813, installed their workshops around 1830 at n°8 Touraine Street, then at n°102 Vieille-du-Temple Street. The four Raingo brothers first known as clockmakers, added to their 1841 sale catalog some art bronze works as well as decorative bronze pieces. In 1860, they supplied the palaces of the Emperor Napoleon III. First specialized in Antique statues reproductions, they cast then models sculpted by contemporary artists such James Pradier (1790-1852), Albert Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) et Auguste Moreau (1834-1917).