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Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay, maître in 1784.
This superb canapé, with its precisely chiseled, jewel-like carving, is probably from an important suite of seat furniture formerly in the collection of the Marquise de Ganay, which comprised at least two canapés, two bergeres, two fauteuils à la reine, and six fauteuils en cabriolet, of which part remains in The Wrightsman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Seven pieces from the suite are discussed in Watson, op. cit.,, pp. 68-70, of which two fauteuils à la reine and two fauteuils en cabriolet were subsequently sold Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1991, lot 445, and 18 June 1994, lot 152 respectively. Four further very similar fauteuils by Demay were sold by the heirs of Princesse Cécile-Caroline Murat, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 2 March 1961.
This superb canapé, with its precisely chiseled, jewel-like carving, is probably from an important suite of seat furniture formerly in the collection of the Marquise de Ganay, which comprised at least two canapés, two bergeres, two fauteuils à la reine, and six fauteuils en cabriolet, of which part remains in The Wrightsman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Seven pieces from the suite are discussed in Watson, op. cit.,, pp. 68-70, of which two fauteuils à la reine and two fauteuils en cabriolet were subsequently sold Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1991, lot 445, and 18 June 1994, lot 152 respectively. Four further very similar fauteuils by Demay were sold by the heirs of Princesse Cécile-Caroline Murat, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 2 March 1961.