ID 992781
Lot 8 | A LATE LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED SIDE CHAIR
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
BY LOUIS DELANOIS, THE CARVING BY JOSEPH-NICOLAS GUICHARD, THE PAINTED DECORATION BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CAGNY, CIRCA 1769
The arched back and seat upholstered à chassis in associated floral embroidered pale silk, the frame carved with entrelacs with pierced ribbon-tie cresting flanked by trailing flowers, the seat-rail carved with flowering branches centred by a ribbon tie, on fluted tapering legs with oak leaf collar and terminating in carved leaftips, the seat-rail and seat frame each stamped once 'L. DELANOIS', the seatframe with pen inscription '16', illegible 18th century ink inscription, the seat-rail with illegible pencil inscription and with Chenue label inscribed 'A Lopez-Wilshaw', largely redecorated, together with a matching chair of later date
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 23 1/2 in. (60 cm.) wide; 23 1/2 in. (60 cm.) deep
Provenance
Delivered circa 1770 to Madame Du Barry for the galerie at the château de Louveciennes.
Collection of Arturo Lopez-Wilshaw.
Collection d'un Amateur, Christie's, Paris, 3-4 October 2012, lot 94.
Literature
F. de Salvette, les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1926, p. 86, pl. XV.
F. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, fig. 184.
P. Verlet, French Cabinetmaking of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1965, pp. 160-161, fig. 4.
S. Eriksen, Louis Delanois: Menuisier en Sieges, Paris, 1968, pl. XXIX.
S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, cat. 172.
C. Bauléz, et. al., madame Du Barry, Paris, 1992, p. 70.
Special notice
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| Medium: | Beechwood, Wood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
| Medium: | Beechwood, Wood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs |
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