CIRCA 1785, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SÉNÉ, REDECORATED

細節

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS A LA REINE
Circa 1785, in the manner of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Séné, redecorated
Each padded rectangular back, outswept arms and bow-fronted seat upholstered in salmon-colored silk, the arched crest-rail flanked by turned vasiform finials above spreading fluted columnar stiles, the flued vasiform arm supports above panelled paterae-headed tapering fluted legs (2)

來源

Anonymous sale, Park-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 November 1956, lot 127.
By repute with French & Co., Inc., New York.

拍品專文

The suggestion of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Séné as the menuisier of these chairs is based upon the unusual use of the Ionic capital to the top of the stiles of the back which is also present on a suite of seat furniture currently housed in the Louvre, see B.G.B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, vol. II, Dijon, 1993, fig. 57, p.162. This suite, although decidedly more elaborate in its decoration, and originally at Chateau St. Cloud, share similar proportions and some design characteristics with the offered suite in addition to the unusual aforementioned leitmotif.

Another possible maker, based upon the proportions of the seat and decoration of the rail and leg, is Jean-Baptiste Bellet, maître 10 April 1782. A chair of related scale is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.53.

A pair of bergères which are essentially identical ecxept for differences to the arms and finials to the toprail and which are almost certainly by the same maker, from the collection of M. Hubert de Givenchy, sold Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 85 (FFr 333,000 - US$ 56,000).