A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL À LA REINE
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL À LA REINE

BY JEAN-BAPTISTE GOURDIN, CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL À LA REINE
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE GOURDIN, CIRCA 1750
Each with a foliate carved toprail above a padded back, arms and seat covered in blue cut-velvet damask supplied by Chalmet, the scrolled arm terminals above a similarly carved front-rail on rocaille ornament-capped cabriole legs and scrolled toes, the rear seat rails stamped 'I*GOVRDIN', re-decorated
37¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep (2)
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Vicomtesse de Bonchamps.

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Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, maître in 1748.

Son of Jean Gourdin, Jean-Baptiste established his workshop in the rue de Cléry near that of his father. He manufactured mostly Louis XV seat-furniture and the sinuous lines of the fauteuils are related to those of a fauteuil in the Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. 7269) (G.B.Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France, Paris, 1989, P. 186). A similar fauteuil is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, p. 367, fig. A.

Vicomtesse Dale de Bonchamps was a prominent American aesthete and collector of decorative arts in post-war Paris. Her apartment on Avenue Foch was renowned for its wonderful interiors designed by the eminent Parisian decorator Georges Geffroy.