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Descripción : Circa 1785, In the Manner of Georges Jacob Each padded square back, arms and seat upholstered … chassis with Beauvais green and cream tapestry, the backs depicting exotic birds, the seats showing animals of the hunt, the chanelled frames carved with bell flower garlands above downscrolled arms on seated sphinx supports, the bowed and chanelled front seat-rail carved with scrolling flowering rinceaux, on lion's legs and paw feet, with the printed label GARDE MEUBLE/...SANTE FRERES/Emenageurs-Emsemba.../PAU and the ink label inscribed...BOAS/10, 9 and 3 (2) PROVENANCE The Collection of Denise Boas, sold Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 9 June 1937, lot 125 (the set of four; the catalogue stated that the suite was reputedly commissioned upon Napoleon's return from Egypt for the chƒt eau de Malmaison). Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1982, lot 209 (the set of four $71,500). LITERATURE Connaissance des Arts, March 1952, no. 1, p. 22. NOTES With their distinctive addorsed lion monopodia legs and seated sphinx arm-supports, these chairs reflect the 'antique' influence of the excavations at Pompeii and Herculeneum, as well as Napoleon's Egyptian campaign as popularised by Baron Vivant-Denon. Simultaneous excavations at Pompeii and Herculeneum brought the Roman and Etruscan cultures to the fore of European furniture design and this new vocabulary of ornament was swiftly adopted by ornamenistes such as Charles Percier and Pierre-Fran‡ois-L‚onard Fontaine, who issued their Recueil des d‚corations int‚rieures in 1801. It is interesting to note in this context that the Boas sale catalogue stated that these fauteuils were reputedly commissioned upon Napoleon's return from Egypt for the chƒt eau de Malmaison. Several fauteuils with lion monopodia front legs and sphinx arm- supports by Georges Jacob are known, including: a pair illustrated in 'Egyptomania: L'Egypte dans l'art occidental, 1730-1930', Exhibition Catalogue, Louvre, Paris, 1994, p. 281, cat. no. 162); a single fauteuil sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 3 May 1977, lot 70 that is comparable to a suite of furniture commissioned by Marie-Antoinette for the chaƒteau de Saint-Cloud, reproduced in Le SiŠge Fran‡ais, Paris, 1953, p. 239; another fauteuil, sold Etude Millon-Rosent, Paris, 25 October 1980, lot 108 that was attributed to Georges Jacob on the basis of its similarity to another signed by Jacob in the Fabius Collection; and a suite of seat-furniture stamped by Jacob from the H“tel de Marbeuf, sold from the Collection Banque Commerciale Priv‚e, Briest, Paris, 10 December 1996, lot 35. Examples with addorsed front and rear legs are as yet unattributable, though parallels may be drawn with a mahogany chaise longue by Bernard Molitor, illustrated in M. Jarry, Le SiŠge Fran‡ais, Fribourg, 1973, p. 277, fig. 273, that has adorsed lion's legs and paws executed in the Egyptian manner. In addition to this, two tabourets stamped JACOB D, also with addorsed lion's legs and paws, are illustrated in E. Dumonthier, Bois de SiŠge, Paris, n.d., cat. no. 68.
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