Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, maître in 1775
Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, the son of menuisier Jean-Baptiste Lelarge II, assumed the control of his father's atelier in 1771.
A closely related lit 'à Romaine' by Georges Jacob circa 1781-82 in the Residenz, Munich is illustrated in B. Langer and H. Ottomeyer, Die Französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1995, p. 285, fig. 86. Another similar bed by Sené and Laurent delivered in 1791 for the chamber of Madame Élizabeth at Fontainebleau is illustrated in P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, 1990, vol. IV, p. 177. Another similar bed now in the Mobilier National is illustrated in G. Janneau, Lits de Repos & Lits, 1977, pl. XXII.
Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, the son of menuisier Jean-Baptiste Lelarge II, assumed the control of his father's atelier in 1771.
A closely related lit 'à Romaine' by Georges Jacob circa 1781-82 in the Residenz, Munich is illustrated in B. Langer and H. Ottomeyer, Die Französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1995, p. 285, fig. 86. Another similar bed by Sené and Laurent delivered in 1791 for the chamber of Madame Élizabeth at Fontainebleau is illustrated in P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, 1990, vol. IV, p. 177. Another similar bed now in the Mobilier National is illustrated in G. Janneau, Lits de Repos & Lits, 1977, pl. XXII.