FRENCH SEAT FURNITURE 63
One of a pair
EXHIBITIONS
London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns,
February-April 1933, no. 529, illus.; Wood-
side, California, Filoli, on loan, 1979-1991.
- Stool (tabouret)
Paris, circa 1710-1720
Gessoed and gilded walnut; modern leather
upholstery
Stamped GHC under each side rail. The
stool bears two paper labels, one glued to
the inside of each side rail, printed with
From the David Zork Company I Exclusive
Furniture and Decoration 1201-207 North
Michigan Boulevard I Chicago, Illinois.
Both paper labels are partially covered by
a second, round label printed with A La
Vieille Russie.
Height: ι ft. 6 lA in. (47 cm); Width:
2 ft. ι in. (63.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 67 /s in.
(48 cm)
Accession number 84.DA. 970
PROVENANCE
Pierre Crozat (1661-1740), trésorier de
France ä Paris in 1704; by descent to his
niece Antoinette-Louise-Marie Crozat de
Thiers, comtesse de Béthune-Pologne (1731-
1809); by descent to the families of La Tour
du Pin and de Chabrillan; by descent to
le comtesse Armand de Caumont La Force,
née Anne-Marie de Chabrillan (1894-1983)
and her son, le comte Robert-Henry de
Caumont La Force, at the Chateau de
Thugny (Ardennes); [(?) David Zork Co.,
Chicago, Illinois]; [A La Vieille Russie,
New York, 1984].
EXHIBITIONS
Reims, France, Palais archiepiscopal,
1876, (?) no. 267, lent by M. le comte de
Chabrillan [information: P. Leperlier].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJiT, (1985),
no. 48, p. 176, illus.; Jean Feray, "Le
Mobilier Crozat," Connaissance des arts
429 (November 1987), pp. 67-68, n. 2;
"The Crozat Suite," Christies Review of the
Season ip88 (Oxford, 1989), pp. 214-215;
Daniel Alcouffe, "Les recentes acquisitions
des musées nationaux, Musée du Louvre,
'Deux fauteuils du mobilier Crozat,' " La
Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 4
(1989), p. 264; Daniel Alcouffe, "Paire de
Fauteuils," Louvre: Nouvelles acquisitions
du département des objets d'art, ip8$-ip8p
(Paris, 1990), no. 67, pp. 140-142.
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