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Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sen, matre in 1769
Probably first conceived by the architect Jean-Charles Delafosse and subsequently published in a drawing in the Cabinet des Modes of 1786, the concept of fluted legs with Ionic cpitals is characteristic of Sen's oeuvre of the late 1780's. Indeed, this particular motif was almost exclusivley employed by the latter on seat-furniture supplied to the Garde-meuble de la Couronne and featured, for instance, on the suite made for Marie-Antoinette's cabinet de toilette, as well as on the fauteuil supplied by Sen and Regnier in 1787 for Louis XVI's bedchamber, both at Saint-Cloud.
Probably first conceived by the architect Jean-Charles Delafosse and subsequently published in a drawing in the Cabinet des Modes of 1786, the concept of fluted legs with Ionic cpitals is characteristic of Sen's oeuvre of the late 1780's. Indeed, this particular motif was almost exclusivley employed by the latter on seat-furniture supplied to the Garde-meuble de la Couronne and featured, for instance, on the suite made for Marie-Antoinette's cabinet de toilette, as well as on the fauteuil supplied by Sen and Regnier in 1787 for Louis XVI's bedchamber, both at Saint-Cloud.