Lot Essay
These 'fauteuil bergères' are closely related in form to that in carved walnut depicted in Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved's celebrated portrait of Françoise de Reims, Baronesse de Vanne. Painted in 1739 and exhibited in the salon that year, it is now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (illustrated in D.Meyer, 'The Rothschild Room An Eighteenth-Century French Salon', Catalogue, Jerusalem, 1985, fig. 24).
A fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris of virtually identical profile and with closely related carving is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Meubles Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1956, Vol.I, Pl. IV, p.116, while a further similar pair was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 5/6 June 1978, lot 58.
A fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris of virtually identical profile and with closely related carving is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Meubles Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1956, Vol.I, Pl. IV, p.116, while a further similar pair was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 5/6 June 1978, lot 58.