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Louis I Cresson, maître in 1738.
Designed in the early Louis XV 'pittoresque' style, these three fauteuils (lots 180-181) originally formed part of an extremely grand suite of seat-furniture. They reflect the influence of the influential ornemaniste Juste-Aurèle Meissoneir, such as featured in his design for a related fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Such 'pittoresque' ornament in the carving of the frames is further enhanced by the contemporary Beauvais tapestry covers. With their distinctive pomegranate spray cartouche to the center of the seat-rail, this suite is characteristic of the oeuvre of the Cresson dynasty of menuisiers, founded by Charles and Jean Cresson during the Régence and continued by both Louis I, René and Michel during the first half of the 18th Century. Like his cousins, Louis Cresson (d.1761) established his workshops in the rue de Cléry and was patronised the duc d'Orléans as well as the prince de Condé.
Slightly later Louis XV fauteuils by Louis Cresson are in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Fribourg, 1974, vol. II, pp. 602 - 603, cat. 128), and in the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. I, p. 10, cat. 6.
Designed in the early Louis XV 'pittoresque' style, these three fauteuils (lots 180-181) originally formed part of an extremely grand suite of seat-furniture. They reflect the influence of the influential ornemaniste Juste-Aurèle Meissoneir, such as featured in his design for a related fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Such 'pittoresque' ornament in the carving of the frames is further enhanced by the contemporary Beauvais tapestry covers. With their distinctive pomegranate spray cartouche to the center of the seat-rail, this suite is characteristic of the oeuvre of the Cresson dynasty of menuisiers, founded by Charles and Jean Cresson during the Régence and continued by both Louis I, René and Michel during the first half of the 18th Century. Like his cousins, Louis Cresson (d.1761) established his workshops in the rue de Cléry and was patronised the duc d'Orléans as well as the prince de Condé.
Slightly later Louis XV fauteuils by Louis Cresson are in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Fribourg, 1974, vol. II, pp. 602 - 603, cat. 128), and in the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. I, p. 10, cat. 6.