A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV PAINTED FAUTEUILS A LA REINE

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV PAINTED FAUTEUILS A LA REINE
BY GEORGES JACOB

Each with arched cartouche-shaped padded back, arm-rests and squab- cushion covered in ivory and blue-striped flowered silk, the channelled acanthus-wrapped frame surmounted by a ribbon-tied floral posie with roses, the scrolled channelled arms with acanthus-wrapped terminals and fluted blocks above a panelled compass-fronted seat-rail with central foliated tablet, on block rosette-headed acanthus-wrapped channelled voluted feet (pieds en console) and turned tapering toupie feet, restorations, the decoration refreshed and with signs of later gilding and blocks, each stamped G* JACOB, with yellow varnish
30½in. (77.5cm.) wide; 41½in. (105.5cm.) high; 24½in. (62.5cm.) deep (2)

来源

Acquired from a Belgian private collection in 1984

拍品专文

Georges Jacob, maitre in 1765

With their pieds en console and Neo-Classical carving on a traditional rococo frame, these fauteuils à la Reine epitomise the menuisier George Jacob's transitional style. A giltwood fauteuil of identical design, more profusely carved overall but without the carving to the toprail and centre of the front seat-rail and of slightly smaller scale, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 28.206.1, discussed in P. Remmington, 'Signed French Chairs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Studies, 1929-30, pp. 70-1, fig. 9). A further chair, carved with the characteristic triangular acanthus plaque to the arms although with 'en cabriolet' back, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Amongst further related Jacob seat furniture is a fauteuil sold at Hotel Drouot, 10 May 1989 ( illustrated in L'Estampille, July 1989), and a 'Chaise à La Reine' with arched cresting inspired by a 1769 pattern of Louis Delanois, now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (illustrated in G. Jannean, 'Les Sieges', Paris, 1967, fig. 249)