CIRCA 1767, BY NICOLAS HEURTAUT

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS A LA REINE
Circa 1767, by Nicolas Heurtaut
Each with cartouche-form arched padded back, arms and bowed seat covered in crimson silk velvet, the scrolling cartouche cresting centered by pilasters issuing trailing floral sprays, the stiff leaf-carved arms with scroll and rosette erminals, the panelled seat-rail centered by an acanthus clasp, on fluted tapering legs headed with panelled rosettes and leaf-tip collar, with stiff-leaf carved toupie feet (2)

Provenance

Madame André Saint, sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 20-21 May 1935, lot 150.
The comte de Fels, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 26 November 1979, lot 251.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin N. Groves, sold Christie's New York, 15 October 1988, lot 117 (as a set of twelve fauteuils and a canapé).

Literature

B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in 18th Century France, 1987, pp. 254-255
J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manières des Mâitres Ebénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle, ed. Pygmalion, 1976, p. 176, figs. E and F
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle,, Paris, 1989, p. 405, fig. D

Nicolas Heurtaut, mâitre in 1753.

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Lot Essay

Originally from a larger suite comprising twelve fauteuils and a canapé, this suite was conceived with Beauvais tapestry upholstery and is indeed illustrated with its original covers in the catalogue for the sale of Madame André Saint's collection in Paris, 21 May 1935, lot 150. Bill Pallot dates them stylistically to around 1767, when Heurtaut's principal clients were Nicolas de Boullogne, M. Chabenat de Bonneuil, the duc de Gèsvres, the marquis de Genlis and the duchesse d' Enville at La Roche Guyon. A set of six armchairs and a canapé from la Rocheguyon, now in the Louvre is illustrated in B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Dijon, 1993, vol. II, pp. 110-113, no. 36.

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