AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE, 20TH CENTURY

These chairs are based on the model made by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené for King Louis XVI's dining-room at Versailles. Sené delivered 28 chairs in 1786, which were painted with white varnish and upholstered by Capin. A pair of chairs from the set was sold Park-Bernet, New York, 9 January 1960, lot 336 and is illustrated in P. Verlet, French Royal Furniture, New York, 1963, p. 172, pl. 33. A further 22 nearly identical chairs with slightly plainer feet were made for the dining room at the same time by Jean-Baptiste Boulard.