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拍品专文
Georges Jacob (1739-1814), maître ébéniste in 1765.
These elegant chairs, constructed of solid mahogany with sober, restrained neoclassical decoration and pierced fan backs, typify the fashionable goût anglais of the 1780's. They are inspired by chair patterns by influential English designers George Hepplewhite (d. 1786) and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806) as published in their celebrated books of designs. An interesting light is shed on the taste for furniture à l'anglaise among sophisticated Parisian patrons by a series of letters between the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour and from 1751-1773 Directeur Général des Batiments, Jardins, Arts, Académies et Manufactures Royales, and the ébéniste Pierre Garnier, one of the first cabinet-makers to explore the new neoclassical style. Marigny praised the virtues of mahogany and ordered a set of 36 fauteuils from Garnier, as well as other furniture of a similar restrained style (see S. Eriksen, 'Some letters from the Marquis de Marigny to his cabinet-maker Pierre Garnier', F.H.S.J., 1972, pp. 78-85). Related chaises à l'anglaise by Jacob are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 425, figs. A-D.
These elegant chairs, constructed of solid mahogany with sober, restrained neoclassical decoration and pierced fan backs, typify the fashionable goût anglais of the 1780's. They are inspired by chair patterns by influential English designers George Hepplewhite (d. 1786) and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806) as published in their celebrated books of designs. An interesting light is shed on the taste for furniture à l'anglaise among sophisticated Parisian patrons by a series of letters between the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour and from 1751-1773 Directeur Général des Batiments, Jardins, Arts, Académies et Manufactures Royales, and the ébéniste Pierre Garnier, one of the first cabinet-makers to explore the new neoclassical style. Marigny praised the virtues of mahogany and ordered a set of 36 fauteuils from Garnier, as well as other furniture of a similar restrained style (see S. Eriksen, 'Some letters from the Marquis de Marigny to his cabinet-maker Pierre Garnier', F.H.S.J., 1972, pp. 78-85). Related chaises à l'anglaise by Jacob are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 425, figs. A-D.