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Lot Essay
Nicolas Quinibert Foliot, maître in 1729.
Nicolas Quinibert Foliot came from a celebrated family of menuisiers, and like his father Nicolas before him, was a fournisseur attitré du Garde-Meuble Royal. He was one of the most important menuisiers of the Louis XV period, supplying extensive amounts of seat furniture to the Royal Court, including a dais for the throne of Louis XV at Versailles, a complete mobilier for the Chambre du Roi, and important pieces for the Comtesse du Barry and the Comtesse de Provence.
He is particularly associated with the mature Louis XV style of the 1750s termed 'rocaille symmetrisé' by Bill Pallot in his seminal work on French chairs L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France (Paris, 1987). Foliot is linked to two of the most celebrated commissions of this period, the superb seat furniture supplied to Madame Louise-Elisabeth for her use in the ducal palace of Colorno, Parma, and the nascent neo-classicism of the famous tapestry suite delivered to Baron Bernstorff in Copenhagen in 1754 (Pallot, op. cit., pp. 142 - 149 and 168 - 169).
Nicolas Quinibert Foliot came from a celebrated family of menuisiers, and like his father Nicolas before him, was a fournisseur attitré du Garde-Meuble Royal. He was one of the most important menuisiers of the Louis XV period, supplying extensive amounts of seat furniture to the Royal Court, including a dais for the throne of Louis XV at Versailles, a complete mobilier for the Chambre du Roi, and important pieces for the Comtesse du Barry and the Comtesse de Provence.
He is particularly associated with the mature Louis XV style of the 1750s termed 'rocaille symmetrisé' by Bill Pallot in his seminal work on French chairs L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France (Paris, 1987). Foliot is linked to two of the most celebrated commissions of this period, the superb seat furniture supplied to Madame Louise-Elisabeth for her use in the ducal palace of Colorno, Parma, and the nascent neo-classicism of the famous tapestry suite delivered to Baron Bernstorff in Copenhagen in 1754 (Pallot, op. cit., pp. 142 - 149 and 168 - 169).