A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI CREAM AND GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS

Lot 136
27.01.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 12 000
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ID 696498
Lot 136 | A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI CREAM AND GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI CREAM AND GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS

BY JEAN-BAPTISTE SENE, CIRCA 1775

The oval padded back, seat and arms upholstered in Beauvais tapestry, all with the inventory marks of the Château d'Eu, three stamped JB SENE







Provenance

Jean-Jacques-Régis Cambacérès, Hôtel de Cambacérès,

Purchased together with the furniture by the Dowager Duchesse d’Orléans,

By descent, to her son King Louis-Philippe who moved the fauteuils to the Château d’Eu during the Restauration period.

Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7-8 December 1954, lot 205, offered with six other armchairs and a canapé.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 282.





Literature

Musée Rodin, Le Faubourg Saint Germain, la rue Saint-Dominique, Paris, December 1984, p. 175, no. 292.





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