Claude-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson I (1663-1733)

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Claude-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson I (1663-1733)

Design for the Boiserie of an overmantel Chimney-Breast with flowered trellis ground and arch-headed Mirror, the key-stone with a head of nymph flanked by dragon on a pedestal; and Design for a Door and surrounding Boiserie and Window, alternate schemes for each panel

signed and inscribed 'Cheminée de la chambre a Couchér sur la rüe de verneuil, po. Monsieur le Comte de Mauron, qui sera Executée par le sieur delcour et dupin Dubuisson lainé', 'Glace' and with measurements (1) and 'Cheminée Mr. Le Comte de Mauron Chambre a Coucher' (2); black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark coat- of-arms between two eagles in a circle (Heawood 715-6, Paris 1718-28) (1), pencil, watermark proprietary (2)
367 x 250mm. and 382 x 253mm. (2)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Paris, Drouot, 29 October 1979, lot 21

Literature

P. Fuhring, op. cit., nos. 212-13

Exhibited

Nijmegen and Haarlem, Wanden en Plafonds. Tekeningen uit de Verzameling Lodewijk Houthakker, 1985, no. 75

Lot Essay

The first drawing is a final modello submitted by the architect, Le Pas Dubuisson I, to Jean François-René Amalric de Buchau, chevalier and comte de Mauron, for the mirror of the bedchamber in his new hôtel, in the rue de Vermeuil, which he bought on 23 February 1714. The sheet bears the architect's signature authorizing the two woodcarvers Delcour and Louis Dupin to undertake the work.
The second sheet presents alternate designs for a set of double doors in the same room to the right of the chimneypiece