The distinctive components of this pair of candelabra the figures after Falconet (1716-1791), the shaped marble bases and their friezes, are found in different combinations with other elements on several well-known variants attributed to various bronziers such as Rémond, Forestier, Gouthière and Thomire. This can be explained by the commissions of the marchand-merciers for whom the bronze makers worked.

The candelabra here presented are closest in design to the model in the Wallace Collection, London -reproduced here in fig.1, (see Hughes, op. cit., where they are discussed with other similar examples) attributed to François Rémond who is known to have worked for the marchand- mercier, Dominique Daguerre. They have virtually identical bronze figures and marble bases and a central shaft in the form of a flaming torch. Peter Hughes suggests that the Wallace pair may be attributed in part to the doreur François Rémond (1747-1812), maître 1774 and dated 1785 on the basis of their candle-branches which are of a model that C. Baulez feels is characteristic of his production at that time. Branches of the same model form pairs of two and three branch wall-lights at Fontainebleau which are also attributed to Rémond. The Wallace model appears in the Daguerre sale of March 1791.

Another pair, again with bleu turquin pedestals, is in the collection of the 7th Earl of Bradford at Weston Park in Shropshire. These were probably supplied by Daguerre to Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl. A further pair were supplied to the 1st Earl of Harewood, almost certainly by Daguerre, and are still at Harewood House, Yorkshire. Another pair was in the Stroganoff collection sold in Berlin in 1931. Other pairs were sold at auction in London and Monaco in 1983.
The marble original of Cupid was exhibited by Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1761) at the salon of 1757 and the plaster original of The Little Girl Hiding Cupid's Bow, was exhibited at the Salon of 1761. Interestingly, Falconet is not mentioned in Rémond's journal de commerce. The two reliefs of putti are also found on other candelabra, i.e. on the bases of a pair of candelabra in the Wallace Collection (F132-3).