BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1760

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A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CANAPE EN CORBEILLE
BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1760
The waved channeled back, padded arms, seat, squab cushion and two scatter cushions covered in wheat cut-velvet, the cresting centered by a floral spray and foliage, above a conformingly-carved waved seat, on cabriole legs with scrolled feet, stamped L.DELANOIS to rear seatrail, previously green painted
75 in. (190.5 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Louis Delanois, maître in 1761.

A celebrated and prolific menuisier, Delanois produced a plethora of seats, a large portion of which was commissioned through marchands-merciers, the Comte d'Artois (future King Charles X, 1824-1830), the prince de Condé, and King Stanislas II of Poland. The majority of his commissions were recorded in his Livre des Ouvrages et Fournitures de Meubles faits à credit (1761-1777) which is now in the Paris Archives. A related canapé or so called ottomane by Delanois, formerly in the collection of the Baron d'Etchegoyen, Paris, is illustrated in S. Eriksen, Louis Delanois, Menuisier en Sièges (1731-1792), Paris, 1968, pl. XX-XXI.

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