Drawing by Charles Percier for Georges Jacob for armchairs, illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, Paris 1989, p. 283.

A SET OF FOUR DIRECTOIRE MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS EN CURULE

CIRCA 1795, POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, AFTER A DRAWING BY CHARLES PERCIER

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A SET OF FOUR DIRECTOIRE MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS EN CURULE
CIRCA 1795, POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, AFTER A DRAWING BY CHARLES PERCIER
Each of à l'antique form with outswept back and seat covered in brown leather, the x-frame suppors with fitted and spherule terminals to the arm terminals, with lion's paw feet, restoration to the legs (4)

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These finely-sculpted fauteuils supported by curule-form bases, reflect the 'antique' influence of the excavations at Pompeii and Herculeneum, as well as Napoleon's Egyptian campaigns of 1798 as popularized by Baron Vivant-Denon in his Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte published in 1802. This new vocabulary of ornament was swiftly adopted by ornemanistes such as Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, architects and designers to Napoleon I. A drawing for a virtually identical chair by Charles Percier (reproduced here), was intended as a model for Georges Jacob, and along with two similar fauteuils signed by Jacob, are reproduced in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle 1795-1889, Paris, 1989, p. 283 and 331.

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