ATTRIBUTED TO LEONARD BEAUVEAU, KNOWN AS BOVO, CIRCA 1765-1770

細節

A SUITE OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
ATTRIBUTED TO LEONARD BEAUVEAU, KNOWN AS BOVO, CIRCA 1765-1770
Each with arched back, padded arms and seat covered in green silk velvet, the back carved with trailing piastres and foliate husks, the arms with foliate terminals on conformingly carved supports, the seat-rail with a fruited laurel frieze and beaded edge, on scroll-carved cabriole legs decorated with ribbon-twist bands and terminating in foliate-wrapped sabots (4)

來源

Sotheby's, Monaco, 8 February 1981, lot 251

注意事項

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拍品專文

With their distinctive scrolled legs and berried leaf-carved seat-rails, these elegant and beautifully carved fauteuils are closely related to a small group of chairs stamped 'BOVO', which all share these carved features. The stamp has generally been linked to Leonard Beauveau, a menuisier working in the circle of Nicolas Heurtaut (B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in 18th Century France, Paris, 1989, p. 218).
The group includes a chaise from the collection of M. Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, Sotheby's, Monaco, 23 June 1976, lot 90, which was sold again, Sotheby's, Paris, 18 June 2002, lot 92 (E 154,250); a futher example in the Wrightsman Collection, illustrated in B. Pallot, op. cit., p. 218; and a fauteuil, discussed by Henri Collet in L'Estampille, July 2002, F 371B.