Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste III Lelarge, maître in 1775.
Jean-Baptiste, the third generation of menuisiers was in the rue de Cléry. In 1788 he worked with the peintre-doreur Vallois and was one of the menuisiers working with the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufacture.
There are several chairs by Lelarge that have retained their original Beauvais tapestry upholstery in the style of Henri Salembier such as thoes from the collection J. Doucet, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 June 1912, lot 299, and sold anonymously Couturier-Nicolay, Paris, 23 March 1982, lots 89 and 90. A further single fauteuil sold anonymously, Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1983, lot 222 and a settee and a pair of fauteuils from the property of Mrs. J.A. Mango were sold in these Rooms, 26 June 1924, lot 175.
Jean-Baptiste, the third generation of menuisiers was in the rue de Cléry. In 1788 he worked with the peintre-doreur Vallois and was one of the menuisiers working with the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufacture.
There are several chairs by Lelarge that have retained their original Beauvais tapestry upholstery in the style of Henri Salembier such as thoes from the collection J. Doucet, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 June 1912, lot 299, and sold anonymously Couturier-Nicolay, Paris, 23 March 1982, lots 89 and 90. A further single fauteuil sold anonymously, Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1983, lot 222 and a settee and a pair of fauteuils from the property of Mrs. J.A. Mango were sold in these Rooms, 26 June 1924, lot 175.