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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 4,
pp. 28-33, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 156,
illus. (one armchair); Pallot, L'Art du siege,
p. 102, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 171, illus.
(one armchair).
Chairs: Height: 3 ft. 5% in. (104.7 cm);
Width: 2 ft. 6 in. (76.2 cm); Depth:
ι ft. u^7 /i6 in. (59.6 cm); Settee: Height:
3 ft. 6 in. (106.7 cm); Width: 7 ft. Κ in.
(214.5 cm); Depth: 3 ft. (91.4 cm)
Accession numbers: Chairs: 83 .DA.230.1-.2;
Settee: 84 .DA.70
PROVENANCE
Chairs: Private collection, New York (sold,
Sotheby's, New York, October 1981, lot 314);
[Matthew Schutz, Ltd., New York, 1982].
Settee: Mrs. Rose Freda, New York;
[Edward De Pasquale, New York, 1983]
(sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 4, 1984,
lot 41).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bremer-David, "Acquisitions 1983,"
GettyMusJiz (1984), no. 8 (armchairs),
pp. 198-199, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983,"
GettyMusJiz (1984), no. 10 (armchairs),
p. 265, illus.; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ
13 (1985), no. 56 (settee), p. 179, illus.; Pallot,
L'Art du siege, p. 278, illus. and p. 300;
Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, pp. 33, 37.
- Pair of Armchairs (fauteuib a L· reiné)
and One Settee
Paris, circa 1750-1755
By Jean Avisse
Gessoed and gilded oak; modern upholstery
Each chair stamped I AVISSE beneath rear
rail. Settee stamped IAVISSE twice beneath
rear rail.
One of a pair 94
