Two Torchères 1692 Juan Dolivar Spanish Etching and engraving with designs for two torchères, created by Juan Dolivar after designs by Jean I Berain. Entrusted with drawings for costumes, stage sets, and royal ceremonies at the 'Academie Royale de la Musique' since 1680, Berain's ingenious creations took acanthus and laurel leaves, palmettes and grotesques, mixing them with dancers, acrobats, monkeys and satyrs, to create his own, imaginative, theatrical world. His designs were multiplied and disseminated by means of engravings, his design motifs and manner objects becoming highly influential in the closing years of the seventeenth century. On the left part of the sheet stands the first torchère in this print, with acanthus and laurel leaves, grotesques, and allegorical figures. The base is made up of large scrolls on which the candelabra stands, framed by scrolling acanthus leaves. In the center, a shell motif flanked above by a small ornamental vase holding a grotesque, whose hair is