ID 1027469
Lot 50 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV GILT WALNUT AND WHITE-PAINTED FAUTEUILS
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 1 000 000
BY LOUIS DELANOIS, JOSEPH-NICOLAS GUICHARD AND JEAN-BAPTISTE CAGNY, SUPPLIED TO MADAME DU BARRY FOR HER CHÂTEAU DE LOUVECIENNES, CIRCA 1770-1771
Each with arched back surmounted with a richly carved floral cresting centered by an elaborate ribbon decorated with flowers and leaves including roses, sunflowers and oleanders trailing down to pinecone finials, the channeled back carved with rosette-centered guilloche motif enriched with acanthus angles and flanked at the sides by floral sprays, issuing beaded arms carved with acanthus leaves issuing husks and terminating in foliate balls supported on channeled and guilloche arm supports terminating in stiff-leaf wrapped bases with roundels issuing acanthus sprays, the bowed seat-rail decorated with a foliate-wrapped rail above a leaf-tip molding, centered by a scrolling acanthus leaf flanked by rosettes, on square tapering legs with gadrooned cornice above a fluted capital and a mille-raie panel enriched with a guilloche pendant and foliate trail, upholstered in original pale silk embroidered with stylized flowers and leaves in blue, pink, green and yellow silks, stamped once 'L. DELANOIS', marked with pen 'R 1792 B'
44 in. (112 cm.) high, 27 in. (69 cm.) wide, 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied to Madame du Barry's château at Louveciennes in 1771.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905),
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949),
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 1792 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France on 14 November 1946 (R 1792 b) and 23 November 1946 (R 1792 a) and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Baulez, Madame du Barry, De Versailles à Louveciennes, Paris, 1992, pp. 56-57, 61, 76.
| Medium: | Beechwood, Giltwood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Armchairs |
| Medium: | Beechwood, Giltwood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Armchairs |
| Address of auction |
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