95- Armchair (bergére ä la reiné)
Paris, circa 1755
By Nicolas Heurtaut
Gessoed and gilded wood; modern silk
upholstery
Stamped Ν.HEURTAUTunder rear rail.
Height: 3 ft. 3% in. (101 cm); Width:
2 ft. 7^34 in. (80.6 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 5% in.
(75.5 cm)
Accession number 84.DA. 69
PROVENANCE
Private collection, New York; [Matthew
Schutz, Ltd., New York, circa i960] (sold,
Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, New York, May 4,
1984, lot 59).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJi^ (1985),
no. 59, p. 180, illus.; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire,
p. 403.- Pair of Armchairs (fauteuils a L· reiné)
Frames: Paris, 1762
Upholstery: Aubusson, nineteenth century
Frames by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot
Gessoed and gilded wood; wool tapestry
Each armchair stamped Ν Q FOLIO Τ inside
rear rail and stenciled in the same place with
a crowned Fand the number 832 for the
Chateau de Fontainebleau.
Height: 3 ft.^34 in. (93.3 cm); Width:
2 ft. 2^5 /8 in. (67.6 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 9% in.
(55.5 cm)
Accession number 70 .DA.70.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Chateau de Versailles, 1762; Chateau de
Fontainebleau; listed as in the lodgings of
Charles-Claude de Taillepied, seigneur de
la Garenne, on November 1,1786, and
again in 1787; Annette Lefortier, Paris
(sold, American Art Association, New York,
November 20,1937, lot 151); purchased at
that sale by J. Paul Getty.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pallot, LArt du siege, pp. 284, illus., and
308-309; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 317.- Armchair {bergere)
Paris, circa 1765-1770
By Georges Jacob
Painted oak; pink and green silk upholstery
The frame of the chair is stamped GI AC Ο Β
and with an anchor flanked by C and Ρ
beneath a crown, the mark of the Chateau
de Chanteloup. The dust cover of the seat
and the underside of the cushion are also
stenciled with the mark of the Chateau de
Chanteloup.
Height: 3 ft. 3 in. (99 cm); Width: 3 ft. 1 in.
(94 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 6 in. (76 cm)
Accession number 88.DA. 123
One of a pair 9666 FRENCH SEAT FURNITURE