MOBILIER DE SALON À CHÂSSIS D`ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV - photo 1
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MOBILIER DE SALON À CHÂSSIS D`ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV

Lot 12
20.11.2024 16:00UTC +01:00
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€ 100 800
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1329877
Lot 12 | MOBILIER DE SALON À CHÂSSIS D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV
Estimate value
€ 100 000 – 200 000
MOBILIER DE SALON À CHÂSSIS D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV
ATTRIBUÉ À NICOLAS-QUINIBERT FOLIOT, MILIEU DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE
En hêtre mouluré, sculpté, laqué blanc rechampi bleu, comprenant un canapé à joues et quatre fauteuils, le dossier chantourné centré d'un motif cordiforme orné de fleurettes, les accotoirs garnis de manchettes rembourrées terminés en enroulements, sur des consoles en cavet ornées d'enroulements de feuillages, les pieds galbés à décor de coquilles et de fleurettes, terminés en enroulements, couverture de tapisserie au point du XVIIIe siècle à décor de fleurs
Siège : H. 97,5 cm. (38 in.) ; L. 68,5 cm. (27 in.) ; P. 57 cm. (22 in.)
Canapé : 99,5 cm. (39 in.) ; L. 161,5 cm. (63 in.) ; P. 61,5 cm. (24 in.)




Provenance

Galerie Steinitz.
Collection privée européenne.



Further details

A SET OF LOUIS XV WHITE-LACQUERED AND PARCEL-BLUE SEAT FURNITURE COMPRISING A SOFA AND FOUR ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO NICOLAS-QUINIBERT FOLIOT, MID-18TH CENTURY

The curvature and movement of its lines, the accentuation of its foliage scrolls and the precision of its carved ornamentation make this seat furniture characteristic of the work of Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706-1776). A member of a family of Parisian carpenters, he became, like his brother Nicolas and after him, the official supplier to the Garde-meuble Royal. In his workshop on rue de Cléry, he carried out commissions for the châteaux of Versailles and Trianon, Fontainebleau, Compiègne and Saint-Hubert. These included a canopy for Louis XV's throne at Versailles, complete furniture for the King's bedroom, a bed for the dauphine Marie-Antoinette, and seating sets for the Countess du Barry, the Countess de Provence and the Count d'Artois. His activity continued even after his death, through the intermediary of his widow, who remained a supplier to the Garde-meuble de la couronne until 1784.

While he is one of the great masters of the Louis XV chair, he is also one of the precursors of the Louis XVI style, with his late Louis XV works featuring curvaceous forms and neoclassical ornamentation. While the curves of this seat furniture, punctuated by winding, moving foliage, are rocaille in style, the purity of the lines and the sobriety of certain moldings already herald a certain neoclassical elegance. The rocaille style is no longer expressed in the abundance of decoration, but in the movement of lines.

For the sculpture of his chairs, Foliot collaborated with the best specialists of the time: his nephew Toussaint Foliot, but also Dupré and Babel. One of Foliot's most famous sets, the sumptuous furniture commissioned by Baron Bernstorff, Danish ambassador to Versailles from 1744 to 1751, features sculpture comparable to our own: the same gushing foliage, but also the same precision in the carving of the flowers, distinctly detached from the moldings, as if delicately placed there. After belonging to the Wertheimer collection, it is now part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (66.60.2).

Similarly, two bergères and six chaises à châssis, delivered around 1745 for the Duc de Penthièvre and now in Waddesdon Manor (3253.3), are similar in form and sculpture to our seat furniture. The backrests, which are queen-shaped and shouldered, are virtually identical, with a particularly accentuated upper arch, characteristic of Foliot. There is also the same pronounced movement of the foliage scrolls, as well as flower ornaments completely distinct from the seat line, almost openwork, spreading out into space.

Due to the richness of their carved decoration, some models, not stamped like our salon furniture, can be attributed to him, such as three chairs from a set that belonged to Madame Elisabeth, daughter of Louis XV, wife of the Duc de Parme, now dispersed and kept at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and in the collection of the Duchesse de Talleyrand at the Palais Rose, before being sold to Monaco in 1987.

Certain ornaments are characteristic of Foliot: the accentuation of the upper rail of the backrest, a certain volute connecting the armrest to the seat, and a kind of sculpted Y at the top of the feet. The latter feature can also be found on a Foliot cabriolet armchair in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris (MB455-1), carved with cartouches, cordiform motifs and florettes comparable to our seat furniture.

Like our seat furniture, a bergère by Foliot in the Getty Museum (95.DA.90), in addition to the recurrence of the same motifs, features equally meticulous carving, distinct from the overall structure of the seat: each carved stem on the feet stands out from the other, and the spread of foliage even suggests an openwork design.

Numerous works by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot with similar silhouettes and sculpture have been sold at Christie's, such as a suite of six Louis XV chairs two years ago in New York, on October 22, 2022, lot 396. Similarly, a pair of cream lacquered armchairs with gold highlights, attributed to Foliot, were sold at Christie's in London on May 19, 2021, lot 10. Finally, a sofa with moving scrolls and ornamentation comparable to our seat furniture was sold at Christie's in London on December 9, 2010, lot 75.
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