This gilded bronze candlestick is an example of the appeal the rococo style continued to hold in the nineteenth-century. It was inspired by designssuch as those published in Oeuvre de Juste Aurèle Meissonnier, a volume of engravings after the works of the French designer, architect and goldsmith, Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750). These were issued in three editions between 1742 and 1750. Late-nineteenth-century sculptors also produced their own versions of rococo style which included a similar motif. In his Cahier des dessins et Croquis style Louis XV (1890), the French sculptor Léon Messagé (1842-1901) presented a design for an inkwell depicting the Roman god of war, Mars, as a child, holding a flaming torch.