CIRCA 1785

细节

A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT-FURNITURE
Circa 1785
Comprising a set of four chaises en cabriolet, four fauteuils and a canapé à la reine, each padded back decorated overall with beaded laurel and pearl frieze, flanked by armrest supports with carved acanthus leaf, above seat-rails with crossbanded laurel garlands on fluted tapering legs headed by a patera and terminated by wrapped laurels on toupie feet, the fauteuils and canapé with loose cushion, the canapé with corner finials to the back, with upholstered sides, covered in cream silk lampas woven with a floral motif and thin blue, green, black, and yellow stripes, with traces of old garde-meuble paper labels
The canape 58½in. (149cm.) (2)

来源

The de Gunzburg Collection.

拍场告示

This present suite is stamped G.IACOB for George Jacob (maître in 1765), which was ommitted from the catalogue.

Please note the quantity of this lot is incorrectly marked in the catalogue. The correct quantity is 9, one canapé, four fauteuils, and four chaises.

拍品专文

This finely-proportioned, well-carved suite was intended to fully furnish a room with fauteuils and a canapé meublant placed around the perimeter of the room and chaises courantes configured at the center of the room with tables à café and tables en chiffonnière. The curved oval backs (en cabriolet) of the chaises, designed to cradle the body of the sitter, their slightly diminutive appearance (though false, as they are the same height as the fauteuils), and the small canapé, convey the intimacy of the Louis XVI interior, a quality nourished by Marie-Antoinette from the moment she arrived in France as dauphine. The laurel-and-berry torus molding to the frames, the gadrooned knop to the legs, and the acanthus-sheathed foot on a bun of this suite recall those of a suite of thirty-six chaises à la reine and a four-panel paravent delivered by Jean-Baptiste Boulard in 1785 for the salon des Jeux du Roi at Versailles (illustrated in P. Verlet, Le mobilier royal français, Vol. IV, Paris, 1990, no.40, pp.150-55, but the seatrail carved with a laurel guilloche parcel-gilt on a ground rechampie en blanc directly recalls the same effect in ivy on the meuble du cabinet de toilette de la reine delivered by Jean-Baptiste Claude Sené in 1788 for the cabinet de toilette de la reine at Saint-Cloud (illustrated in Ibid., Vol. III, 1994, no.39, pp.244-51).