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Lot Essay
The stamp is likely that of Jacques-Charles-Denis Chartier, maître 31 May 1760.
This magnificent fauteuil de bureau, with its sinuous profile and use of more consistent, regular decoration including rosettes and swags place it towards the end of the Rococo period. Its crisp, finely carved embellishments place it at the top of the oeuvre of its creator, believed to be the marchand-ébéniste-menuisier-miroitier Jacques-Charles-Denis Chartier.
Jacques-Charles-Denis Chartier was largely a marchand-ébéniste-miroitier and mainly manufactured and sold case furniture and mirrors, but he also produced seat-furniture. Few examples of his seat-furniture are recorded and those which are recognized as part of Chartier's body of work are in the strict neoclassic style of the later 18th Century. A pair of fauteuils stamped Chartier were sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 1 October 1988, lot 75. The Louis XV bergere de bureau offered here is one of the earlier known examples of Chartier's work as a menuisier.
This magnificent fauteuil de bureau, with its sinuous profile and use of more consistent, regular decoration including rosettes and swags place it towards the end of the Rococo period. Its crisp, finely carved embellishments place it at the top of the oeuvre of its creator, believed to be the marchand-ébéniste-menuisier-miroitier Jacques-Charles-Denis Chartier.
Jacques-Charles-Denis Chartier was largely a marchand-ébéniste-miroitier and mainly manufactured and sold case furniture and mirrors, but he also produced seat-furniture. Few examples of his seat-furniture are recorded and those which are recognized as part of Chartier's body of work are in the strict neoclassic style of the later 18th Century. A pair of fauteuils stamped Chartier were sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 1 October 1988, lot 75. The Louis XV bergere de bureau offered here is one of the earlier known examples of Chartier's work as a menuisier.