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Lot Essay
The stamp is that of Georges Jacob and Franois-Honor-Georges Jacob-Desmalter, in use from 1803-1813.
This chair relates closely to a set of four bergeres now in the Chteau de Malmaison and made by Jacob Desmalter in 1803 for the boudoir de l'Impratrice at the Chateau de Saint Cloud. The suite follows watercolor designs by Charles Percier and Pierre-Franois-Leonard Fontaine, architects and designers to Napoleon I, which was later engraved by La Msangre in his Receuil de Meubles et Objets de Gut. A similar suite, gilded in or blanc, was delivered by Jacob Desmalter in 1809 for the Elyse Palace where it remains in the salon d'argent (M. Jarry, Le Sige Franais, 1973, p. 292, pl. 43). Percier and Fontaine's original watercolor and La Msangre's prints are illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebnistes Parisiens, 1795-1870, 1965, pl. LXI. Jarry also illustrates (op. cit. p. 294, ill. 297), a giltwood fauteuil from the htel de Beauharnais, circa 1805, which incorporates the same distinctive swan motifs.
A closely related pair of bergeres of this model but of slightly earlier date, stamped by Georges Jacob, was sold in these Rooms, 19 March 1988, lot 221.
This chair relates closely to a set of four bergeres now in the Chteau de Malmaison and made by Jacob Desmalter in 1803 for the boudoir de l'Impratrice at the Chateau de Saint Cloud. The suite follows watercolor designs by Charles Percier and Pierre-Franois-Leonard Fontaine, architects and designers to Napoleon I, which was later engraved by La Msangre in his Receuil de Meubles et Objets de Gut. A similar suite, gilded in or blanc, was delivered by Jacob Desmalter in 1809 for the Elyse Palace where it remains in the salon d'argent (M. Jarry, Le Sige Franais, 1973, p. 292, pl. 43). Percier and Fontaine's original watercolor and La Msangre's prints are illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebnistes Parisiens, 1795-1870, 1965, pl. LXI. Jarry also illustrates (op. cit. p. 294, ill. 297), a giltwood fauteuil from the htel de Beauharnais, circa 1805, which incorporates the same distinctive swan motifs.
A closely related pair of bergeres of this model but of slightly earlier date, stamped by Georges Jacob, was sold in these Rooms, 19 March 1988, lot 221.