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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.
This elegant set of Directoire dining-chairs by Jacob Frères
formed part of the collection of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño at his Swiss home. Ortiz-Patiño descends from an important family of collectors, with his grandfather, the Bolivian 'Tin King' Simon I. Patiño, a great benefactor of Bolivian education and, undeniably, the inspiration behind his children's enduring passion for collecting. Mr. Ortiz-Patiño's impressive collection ranged from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, while encompassing French furniture, important silver and Old Master paintings.
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.
This elegant set of Directoire dining-chairs by Jacob Frères
formed part of the collection of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño at his Swiss home. Ortiz-Patiño descends from an important family of collectors, with his grandfather, the Bolivian 'Tin King' Simon I. Patiño, a great benefactor of Bolivian education and, undeniably, the inspiration behind his children's enduring passion for collecting. Mr. Ortiz-Patiño's impressive collection ranged from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, while encompassing French furniture, important silver and Old Master paintings.