pair of monumental torches from the second half of the 19th century By Alexandre Durenne In cast iron, partly gilded, the shaft representing a child draped in the antique style with arms raised holding a gilded bronze bouquet with eighteen arms of light on two levels, resting on a base in the imitation of porphyry, the arms of light monogrammed N, one figure signed A.DURENNE PARIS, the other A.DURENNE, a glass element missing from one of the two; electrified. H. 280 cm (110 ¼ in.) l. 85 cm (33 ½ in.) Provenance : By tradition, Palais de l'Élysée, Paris. A pair of monumental cast iron and gilt-bronze eighteen-light figural torcheres, by Alexandre Durenne, Paris, second half of the 19th century