BY JEAN RENE NADAL (DIT 'L'AINE'), LATE 18TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY VICTOR GRANDPIERRE CIRCA 1955

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS
BY JEAN RENE NADAL (DIT 'L'AINE'), LATE 18TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY VICTOR GRANDPIERRE CIRCA 1955
Each with medallion back, padded arms and seat covered in crimson red silk-velvet, the chanelled frame carved with rope-twist and guilloche, with foliate-wrapped and conformingly-carved arm supports, on stop-fluted turned tapering legs terminating in toupie feet, one stamped 'J. NADAL LAINE'
Each: 39 in. (99 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

Jean René Nadal (dit l'Aîné), maître in 1756.
A related pair of grey-painted fauteuils a dossier medallion are in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris (ill. A. Forray-Carlier, Le Mobilier du Musée Carnavalet, Dijon, 2000, pp. 194-5). A further related suite of six fauteuils by Nadal was sold anonymously, Christie's, Monaco, 10 December 2000, lot 686.

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