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拍品专文
With their fine carving, gently-waisted outline and distinctive asymmetric rocaille adorning their seats, these elegant dining-chairs can be confidently attributed to the celebrated menuisier Pierre Nogaret.
Having trained in Paris where he remained until 1743, Nogaret left the capital for Lyon where he flourished and received his maîtrise in 1745. Chiefly remembered for his life-life carving and the ingenuity of the motifs used in his oeuvre, he specialized in the full-blown Louis XV style. Although the 'style rocaille asymétrique' appears to have been his area of predilection, Nogaret's production also reflects elements very much characteristic of the Régence, among which the shaped stretchers and rigorously straight back. Guillaume Janneau illustrates a virtually identical caned seat stamped by Nogaret, with the same exact carving to the cresting, shoulders, seatrail, legs and scrolled feet (G.Janneau, Le Mobilier Français, Les Sièges, Paris, 1967, p.78, figs.151-2). The idiosyncratic asymmetric rocaille which centres the seatrail of both the example illustrated by Janneau and the chairs offered here, is undoubtedly the most distinctive of all the recurrent motifs used by the menuisier. The same rockwork cartouche features on another example illustrated ibid, p.60, fig.101.
Further virtually identical examples, most of which stamped by the menuisier, were sold at auction. These include a pair of fauteuils, formerly in the collection of Daisy Fellowes, sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 15 December 2003, lot 16, a set of eight seats sold Tajan, Paris, 22 June 1998, lot 124 (FF200,000 with premium) and a further suite of seat furniture sold Christie's, Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 86, while another pair of fauteuils was offered Sotheby's, Monaco, 19 June 1988, lot 1796. Many examples by the celebrated menuisier are now in the Louvre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris, as well as in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon.
Having trained in Paris where he remained until 1743, Nogaret left the capital for Lyon where he flourished and received his maîtrise in 1745. Chiefly remembered for his life-life carving and the ingenuity of the motifs used in his oeuvre, he specialized in the full-blown Louis XV style. Although the 'style rocaille asymétrique' appears to have been his area of predilection, Nogaret's production also reflects elements very much characteristic of the Régence, among which the shaped stretchers and rigorously straight back. Guillaume Janneau illustrates a virtually identical caned seat stamped by Nogaret, with the same exact carving to the cresting, shoulders, seatrail, legs and scrolled feet (G.Janneau, Le Mobilier Français, Les Sièges, Paris, 1967, p.78, figs.151-2). The idiosyncratic asymmetric rocaille which centres the seatrail of both the example illustrated by Janneau and the chairs offered here, is undoubtedly the most distinctive of all the recurrent motifs used by the menuisier. The same rockwork cartouche features on another example illustrated ibid, p.60, fig.101.
Further virtually identical examples, most of which stamped by the menuisier, were sold at auction. These include a pair of fauteuils, formerly in the collection of Daisy Fellowes, sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 15 December 2003, lot 16, a set of eight seats sold Tajan, Paris, 22 June 1998, lot 124 (FF200,000 with premium) and a further suite of seat furniture sold Christie's, Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 86, while another pair of fauteuils was offered Sotheby's, Monaco, 19 June 1988, lot 1796. Many examples by the celebrated menuisier are now in the Louvre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris, as well as in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon.