These chairs relate to a set now in the Green Anteroom of the Rosersberg Palace in Sweden, designed in 1809 by Carl Christoffer Görwell in 1809 in the French Consulate style and illustrated in H. Groth, Neoclassism in the North, 1990, p.142. Similar chairs are also illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler Frän Svenska Herremanshem, 1979, vol. III, pl. 1132 and a similar pair was sold Christie's London, 15 March 1990, lot 196.