The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Francois-Raoul LARCHE

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Collection

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, Almina, daughter of Asher Wertheimer 1908, Tate, London, presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes in 1922

Francois-Raoul LARCHE | Loïe Fuller lamp

ENLARGE

LARCHE, Francois-Raoul, designer

France 1860 – France 1912

Loïe Fuller lamp
gilded bronze electric lamp in the shape of the American dancer, Loie Fuller c.1900

Decorative Art

Metalwork

bronze, gilt

45.6 (h) x 23.0 (w) x 25.5 (d) cm

impressed, on front of base, 'RAOUL LARCHE' impressed, side of base, inside circle, 'SIOT.DECAUVILLE. PARIS / FONDEUR' impressed, rear of base, '?923'

Purchased 1989

NGA 1989.510

VIEW: Article | REFERENCES

Loïe Fuller, Quinze ans de ma vie [Fifteen years of my life], Paris: Juven, 1908
Dora Meeson Coates, George Coates: His art and his life, London: J.M. Dent, 1937
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau and Art Deco lighting, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, ‘World expositions and the bourgeoisie: Paris’
in Art Nouveau, Cologne: Könemann, 1997.