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Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
The château de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire was originally built by the architect Mansart at the end of the 17th century. Initially owned by the Philippeaux de la Vrillière family, it was later purchased from the Rohan-Guiminée family by Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre and grandson of Louis XIV. He also purchased the contents of the château for the considerable sum of 50,000 livres.
As in his other residences, Penthièvre ordered ébénisterie from his favourite craftsmen including Jean-François Oeben and Roger Vandercruse, dit Lacroix, from whom he ordered at least a commode and a table, and menuiserie from Georges Jacob, including a bergère sold in Paris, 18 March 1981, lot 231, as well as a pair of tabourets sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 22-23 October 2003, lot 519. The Wildenstein chairs display Jacob's characteristic innovation of a heavily chamfered seat-rail - which serves both to preserve strength and reduce weight.
The furnishings of Châteauneuf-sur-Loîre were seized at the Revolution, sent initially to Tours and then to Paris where they were sold without reserve, which was the case with a commode now in the musée du Louvre.
The château de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire was originally built by the architect Mansart at the end of the 17th century. Initially owned by the Philippeaux de la Vrillière family, it was later purchased from the Rohan-Guiminée family by Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre and grandson of Louis XIV. He also purchased the contents of the château for the considerable sum of 50,000 livres.
As in his other residences, Penthièvre ordered ébénisterie from his favourite craftsmen including Jean-François Oeben and Roger Vandercruse, dit Lacroix, from whom he ordered at least a commode and a table, and menuiserie from Georges Jacob, including a bergère sold in Paris, 18 March 1981, lot 231, as well as a pair of tabourets sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 22-23 October 2003, lot 519. The Wildenstein chairs display Jacob's characteristic innovation of a heavily chamfered seat-rail - which serves both to preserve strength and reduce weight.
The furnishings of Châteauneuf-sur-Loîre were seized at the Revolution, sent initially to Tours and then to Paris where they were sold without reserve, which was the case with a commode now in the musée du Louvre.