BY SULPICE BRIZARD

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE EN CABRIOLET
By Sulpice Brizard
The rectangular curved back with canted corners flanked by padded armrests raised on channelled and acanthus-carved supports, above guilloche carved-seatrails and strigilated turned tapering legs, upholstered throughout with red sild damask, stamped S. BRIZARD, with later block supports, the seatrails built up, the front left leg with a repaired break, regilt

Provenance

The collection of Georges Lurcy, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 November 1957, lot 201.

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Lot Essay

Sulpice Brizard, c.1735-1798, received maître in 1762.

Brizard established his workshops in the rue de Cl/aery in 1765, and apparently enjoyed the patronage of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from the beginning of Louiis XVI's reign. Still flourishing in 1799, when he is cited in the Almanach du commerce, Brizard specialised in the production of refined seat-furniture in a advanced Neo-classical taste. Indeed the spirally-fluted tapering pieds en torse of the offered beregere may perhaps reflect the revival of interest in the furniture of Andr/ae-Charles Boulle, as promoted by the marchand Julliot and the /aeb/aenistes Montigny and Levasseur.

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