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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 the château de Saint-Cloud circa 1785. These banquettes are notable for the sophisticated use of the pied en console, a device also used by Georges Jacob on a chair made for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau, see M. Jarry, Le Siège 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.
A pair of giltwood fauteuils with the same plain moulded seat rail and reeded uprights carved with rosettes by Dupain, sold Christie's, London, 9 February 2023, lot 78. A pair of armchairs attributed to Dupain and formerly in the collection of Anna Thomson Dodge at Rose Terrace, that features the same design, sold Christie's, New York, 22 November 1983, lot 121. For a giltwood lit à la turque with comparable sides, also stamped by Dupain, see Sotheby's, London, 25 October 2016, lot 158.
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 the château de Saint-Cloud circa 1785. These banquettes are notable for the sophisticated use of the pied en console, a device also used by Georges Jacob on a chair made for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau, see M. Jarry, Le Siège 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.
A pair of giltwood fauteuils with the same plain moulded seat rail and reeded uprights carved with rosettes by Dupain, sold Christie's, London, 9 February 2023, lot 78. A pair of armchairs attributed to Dupain and formerly in the collection of Anna Thomson Dodge at Rose Terrace, that features the same design, sold Christie's, New York, 22 November 1983, lot 121. For a giltwood lit à la turque with comparable sides, also stamped by Dupain, see Sotheby's, London, 25 October 2016, lot 158.