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Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, matre in 1765
This striking canape, with its severe architectural form of bound Roman fasces uprights flanked by acanthus garlands and with fluted columnar legs, is typical of the got grec style fashionable in the 1760's and popularized by influential designers such as Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791). The oval medallion back with fasces is found on a chair design by Boucher le jeune of 1774-5, illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 497. It is also interesting to note that similar fasces uprights for lits d'alcove and used as architectural framing appear in designs by the architect Franois-Joseph Belanger for the bedroom of the comte d'Artois in the chteau de Bagatelle (illustrated in D. Alcouffe et al.,, La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, pp. 132-3).
This striking canape, with its severe architectural form of bound Roman fasces uprights flanked by acanthus garlands and with fluted columnar legs, is typical of the got grec style fashionable in the 1760's and popularized by influential designers such as Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791). The oval medallion back with fasces is found on a chair design by Boucher le jeune of 1774-5, illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 497. It is also interesting to note that similar fasces uprights for lits d'alcove and used as architectural framing appear in designs by the architect Franois-Joseph Belanger for the bedroom of the comte d'Artois in the chteau de Bagatelle (illustrated in D. Alcouffe et al.,, La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, pp. 132-3).