ID 1072638
Lot 5 | CHAISE À LA REINE ROYALE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
PAR JEAN-BAPTISE BOULARD, LIVRÉE EN 1785 PAR JEAN HAURÉ POUR LE SALON DES JEUX DE LOUIS XVI À VERSAILLES
En hêtre mouluré, sculpté et doré, le dossier en chapeau de gendarme à décor d'une frise de rais-de-coeur et de feuilles de laurier doublé d'un tore, l'assise ceintrée appliquée de larges dés de racordement centrés d'une rosace, les pieds fuselés et cannelés terminés par des feuilles d'acanthe, estampillée '2222' numérotée '64' à la craie, inscrite 'BARDOU' et 'E.de Rothschild' au crayon, marquée 'RMA.' à l'encre noire et portant une ancienne trace d'étiquette sous l'assise, la couverture de soie à motifs de bouquets de feuilles et fleurs polychromes sur fond bleu ; déchirures à la couverture
H.: 92 cm. (36 ½ in.) ; L.: 56 cm. (22 in.) ; P.: 51 cm. (20 in.)
Provenance
Commandée le 28 février 1785 et livrée le 7 novembre 1785 par Jean Hauré au Garde-Meuble de la Couronne ;
Placée dans le Salon des Jeux de Louis XVI, château de Versailles ;
Ventes révolutionnaires du 28 décembre 1793, l'ensemble du mobilier acquis par les citoyens Grincourt, veuve Barberet et Marceau; puis réunis par les Libraires Treuttel et Wurtz.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Spoliée sous la direction du Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg sous l'Occupation de la France, après mai 1940.
Récupérée par l’unité Monuments Fine Arts and Archives à l’abbaye de Buxheim, Allemagne.
Renvoyée en France directement depuis celui-ci et restituée à la famille Rothschild.
Puis par descendance jusqu'au propriétaire actuel.
Literature
P. Verlet, Le mobilier royal français, t.4, Paris, 1990, pp. 150-155
N. Gasc et G. Mabille, Le musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1991, p. 21 et 51.
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 9.
D. Meyer, Le mobilier de Versailles, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, t.1, Dijon, 2002, pp. 154-157.
M.-N. de Gary, Musée Nissim de Camondo, La demeure d’un collectionneur, Paris, 2007, pp. 108-109.
L. Condamy, Jean-Baptiste Boulard menuisier du Roi, Dijon, 2008, première de couverture, pp. 6 et 211-216.
A. Forray-Carlier, Le Mobilier du château de Chantilly. Dijon, 2010, pp. 84-85.
S. Legrand-Rossi, Le mobilier du musée Nissim de Camondo, Saint-Etienne, 2012, pp. 192-193.
Further details
A ROYAL LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CHAIR, SUPPLIED IN 1785 BY JEAN HAURÉ FOR THE SALON DES JEUX DE LOUIS XVI AT CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES, BY JEAN-BAPTISTE BOULARD
Medium: | Wood |
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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 |
Medium: | Wood |
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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 |
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