Lot Essay
François Geny, maître in 1773 in Lyon
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
By François Geny
En suite with the preceding lot, the associated close-nailed Beauvais tapestry woven in wools and silks and depicting an episode from La Fontaine's fables with a fox and a ram, the seat with a peacock and a stork in a landscape, the other with formal gardens, re-gilt, later blocks, each stamped F . GENY, variations in carving (2)
By François Geny
En suite with the preceding lot, the associated close-nailed Beauvais tapestry woven in wools and silks and depicting an episode from La Fontaine's fables with a fox and a ram, the seat with a peacock and a stork in a landscape, the other with formal gardens, re-gilt, later blocks, each stamped F . GENY, variations in carving (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 23-24 June 1985, lot 896 (a set of four)