拍品专文
Jean-Baptiste Boulard, maître in 1755
The brand is a French royal brand
An identical chaise, apparently unstamped, but with the brand of the château of St. Cloud and a Trianon label, in the Mobilier Nationale, Paris, is illustrated N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, Vol. I, p.77, fig.146B. This set probably dates from around 1788. It shares the shaped rectangular back and turned arm-supports of the set of furniture supplied by Sené for the grand cabinet de la Reine at St. Cloud in 1788. Boulard delivered a set of twelve chairs for the cabinet intérier du Roi at St. Cloud in 1788. It is possible that this set of five fauteuils were part of this set. The private apartments of the French royal family were often furnished at this time with more functional pieces as witnessed by a fauteuil and a chaise from a set delivered by Boulard in 1785 for the appartements intérieurs of Louis XVI at Compiègne (Exhibition Catalogue, De Paris à Versailles, Mairie du V.e arrondissement, Paris, 1989, p.231, no. 48).
Jean-Baptiste Boulard (circa 1725-1789) is best known for the chairs he supplied to the Garde-Meuble in the Louis XVI style from 1777. During this period he devoted most of his time to the decorative schemes co-ordinated by Hauré for the Garde-Meuble. In 1785 he supplied a suite of 36 chairs for the Salon des Jeux at Versailles which were carved by Hauré. Nineteen still remain at Versailles. In 1786 he provided 36 chairs for the Salon des Jeux at Fontainebleau, two of which are now in the Louvre and six in the Wallace Collection, London
Boulard shared many of his commissions with other menuisiers such as François Foliot and Jean-Baptiste Sené. The twelve chairs at Versailles supplied for Louis XVI's dining room were a joint commission with Sené who from this time on appears to have taken the ascendant. Although Boulard died in 1789, his widow continued to supply the Garde-Meuble until 1792
The brand is a French royal brand
An identical chaise, apparently unstamped, but with the brand of the château of St. Cloud and a Trianon label, in the Mobilier Nationale, Paris, is illustrated N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, Vol. I, p.77, fig.146B. This set probably dates from around 1788. It shares the shaped rectangular back and turned arm-supports of the set of furniture supplied by Sené for the grand cabinet de la Reine at St. Cloud in 1788. Boulard delivered a set of twelve chairs for the cabinet intérier du Roi at St. Cloud in 1788. It is possible that this set of five fauteuils were part of this set. The private apartments of the French royal family were often furnished at this time with more functional pieces as witnessed by a fauteuil and a chaise from a set delivered by Boulard in 1785 for the appartements intérieurs of Louis XVI at Compiègne (Exhibition Catalogue, De Paris à Versailles, Mairie du V.e arrondissement, Paris, 1989, p.231, no. 48).
Jean-Baptiste Boulard (circa 1725-1789) is best known for the chairs he supplied to the Garde-Meuble in the Louis XVI style from 1777. During this period he devoted most of his time to the decorative schemes co-ordinated by Hauré for the Garde-Meuble. In 1785 he supplied a suite of 36 chairs for the Salon des Jeux at Versailles which were carved by Hauré. Nineteen still remain at Versailles. In 1786 he provided 36 chairs for the Salon des Jeux at Fontainebleau, two of which are now in the Louvre and six in the Wallace Collection, London
Boulard shared many of his commissions with other menuisiers such as François Foliot and Jean-Baptiste Sené. The twelve chairs at Versailles supplied for Louis XVI's dining room were a joint commission with Sené who from this time on appears to have taken the ascendant. Although Boulard died in 1789, his widow continued to supply the Garde-Meuble until 1792