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The profile of these exuberantly carved armchairs is close in inspiration to a drawing in the Museé des Arts Décoratifs (no. 13577), attributed to Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750), goldsmith to Louis XV and in 1726 named architecte-dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi. The drawing shows the same overall sweep of the back and carved decoration heading the legs as well as a similar treatment of the arm-supports.
The chairs' stiff, large-proportioned backs and cabochon-centered cartouche of the crest and seat-rails recall the grand models of an earlier era, but the slightly undulating form of the sides of the back and the softened form of the crestrail are already closer to the full Rococo examples executed some ten years later by such celebrated menuisiers as Nicolas Heurtaut and Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot. A pair of armchairs dated to the Régence period with a more rectangular back but with similarly-carved waved seat-rail is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Meuble Français et Européen du Moyen Âge à Nos Jours, Paris, 1991, p. 126, fig. 104. A set of four related armchairs with similar arched rectangular backs are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 64, pl. 91.
The chairs' stiff, large-proportioned backs and cabochon-centered cartouche of the crest and seat-rails recall the grand models of an earlier era, but the slightly undulating form of the sides of the back and the softened form of the crestrail are already closer to the full Rococo examples executed some ten years later by such celebrated menuisiers as Nicolas Heurtaut and Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot. A pair of armchairs dated to the Régence period with a more rectangular back but with similarly-carved waved seat-rail is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Meuble Français et Européen du Moyen Âge à Nos Jours, Paris, 1991, p. 126, fig. 104. A set of four related armchairs with similar arched rectangular backs are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 64, pl. 91.