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Lot Essay
Adrien-Pierre Dupain maître in 1772.
Dupain settled on the rue de Charonne on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Working in the neoclassical style, Dupain is best known for the seat furniture he supplied to Marie-Antoinette for Château de Saint-Cloud circa 1785. The present chairs are notable for the sophisticated use of the pied en console, a device also used by Georges Jacob Royal menuisier, on a chair made for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau (M. Jarry, Le Siege Francais, Friboug, 1973, p. 230, fig. 229.). Adrien-Pierre Dupain is also known for his finely carved athéniennes including an example formerly in the K.J. Hewitt collection illustrated in F.J.B Watson Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, fig. 226.
Interestingly, a pair of banquettes stamped Dupain formerly in the Dutasta collection share this design with their plain moulded seat rail and reeded uprights carved with rosettes, sold from a private collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 1989, lot 270 ($176,000 including premium). A comparable pair of fauteuils with beaded and ribbon decoration to the frame were sold Christie’s New York, 30 October 1993, lot 345. A further pair was formerly in the collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, Rose Terrace, sold Christie’s, 27 September 1971, lot 42.
The superb Beauvais tapestry upholstery was woven between 1787-91 and based on cartoons by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805) for the figural panels to the backs, and François-Joseph Casanova (1727-1802) for the animal scenes to the seats. A fauteuil with similar Beauvais tapestry upholstery is now in the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (inv. AD 6948); another set similarly covered and formerly in the collection of Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild at Halton House, Buckinghamshire, was sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 25 June 2019, lot 13.
Dupain settled on the rue de Charonne on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Working in the neoclassical style, Dupain is best known for the seat furniture he supplied to Marie-Antoinette for Château de Saint-Cloud circa 1785. The present chairs are notable for the sophisticated use of the pied en console, a device also used by Georges Jacob Royal menuisier, on a chair made for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau (M. Jarry, Le Siege Francais, Friboug, 1973, p. 230, fig. 229.). Adrien-Pierre Dupain is also known for his finely carved athéniennes including an example formerly in the K.J. Hewitt collection illustrated in F.J.B Watson Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, fig. 226.
Interestingly, a pair of banquettes stamped Dupain formerly in the Dutasta collection share this design with their plain moulded seat rail and reeded uprights carved with rosettes, sold from a private collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 1989, lot 270 ($176,000 including premium). A comparable pair of fauteuils with beaded and ribbon decoration to the frame were sold Christie’s New York, 30 October 1993, lot 345. A further pair was formerly in the collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, Rose Terrace, sold Christie’s, 27 September 1971, lot 42.
The superb Beauvais tapestry upholstery was woven between 1787-91 and based on cartoons by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805) for the figural panels to the backs, and François-Joseph Casanova (1727-1802) for the animal scenes to the seats. A fauteuil with similar Beauvais tapestry upholstery is now in the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (inv. AD 6948); another set similarly covered and formerly in the collection of Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild at Halton House, Buckinghamshire, was sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 25 June 2019, lot 13.
