Lot Essay
Mathieu Befort (1813-1880) is recorded as having worked in Paris at 1 Rue Neuve-Saint-Gilles from 1836 to 1866 and later moving to No.6, residing there until 1880. He descended from a family of renowned ébénistes and was the son of Jean-Baptiste Befort, called Befort Père. Father and son are noted for their reproductions and interpretations of furniture executed by André Charles Boulle.
The offered lot is a pastiche of the armoire commissioned by Louis XIV in 16 from André Charles Boulle and is now at Versailles (see Denise Ledoux-Lebard, 19th Century Furniture, 1984, pp. 48, 49, 50, a similarly mounted cabinet illustrated on p. 50).
The offered lot is a pastiche of the armoire commissioned by Louis XIV in 16 from André Charles Boulle and is now at Versailles (see Denise Ledoux-Lebard, 19th Century Furniture, 1984, pp. 48, 49, 50, a similarly mounted cabinet illustrated on p. 50).