Lot Essay
Georges II Jacob and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob used this stamp between 1796 and 1803.
With their delicate outcurved trellis-carved backs, these chairs demonstrate the supremely elegant and refined style employed by the sons of Georges Jacob, a collaboration which was short-lived as Georges II died in 1803, prompting Georges to re-join the firm he had left six years earlier. The distinctive trellis motif had been used by Jacob for chairs he supplied to Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet in 1787 (see M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps, Saint-Remy en l'Eau, 2002) but was enduringly fashionable during the Directoire and his successors supplied various superb related examples to Fontainebleau, some of which were sold, Sotheby's, Paris, 12 March 2002, lot 45.
With their delicate outcurved trellis-carved backs, these chairs demonstrate the supremely elegant and refined style employed by the sons of Georges Jacob, a collaboration which was short-lived as Georges II died in 1803, prompting Georges to re-join the firm he had left six years earlier. The distinctive trellis motif had been used by Jacob for chairs he supplied to Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet in 1787 (see M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps, Saint-Remy en l'Eau, 2002) but was enduringly fashionable during the Directoire and his successors supplied various superb related examples to Fontainebleau, some of which were sold, Sotheby's, Paris, 12 March 2002, lot 45.