Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

PROVENANCE
Etienne-Fra^ois de Stainville, due de
Choiseul, Chateau de Chanteloup; Louis
de Bourbon, due de Penthiévre, Chateau
de Chanteloup, 1785; "Poitevin Joubert et
femme Fleury," after 1794, purchased at the
sale of the contents of the chateau; [Bernard
Baruch Steinitz, Paris, 1988].

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alfred Gabeau, "Le Mobilier d'un chateau ä
la fin du XVlIIe siécle: Chanteloup," Reunion
des sociétés des beaux-arts des départements
(Paris, April 1898), pp. 529, 541; Jehanne
d'Orliac, La Vie merveilleuse d'un beau
domaine frangais-Chanteloup du XIIIe Steele
au XXe siecle (Paris, 1929), p. 231; "Acquisi­
tions/1988," GettyMusJij (1989), no. 74,
pp. 142-143, illus.
One of a pair 98

98. Pair of Side Chairs (chaises ä L· reiné)
    Paris, circa 1765-1770
    By Jean Boucault
    Gessoed and gilded beech; modern silk
    velvet upholstery
    Each stamped J.BOUCAULT ana branded
    with a crowned double V, the mark of the
    Chateau de Versailles, under the seat rail.
    Each also stenciled with various royal inven­
    tory numbers.
    Height: 2 ft. 11 % in. (91 cm); Width:
    ι ft. 10% in. (57 cm); Depth: 2 ft. z% in.
    (66.5 cm)
    Accession number 71 .DA.92.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Part of a suite of seat furniture acquired by

the order of baron de Breteufl and delivered

to the garde meuble in 1783; Chateau de Ver­

sailles (sold, November 25,1793 [5 frimaire,

an II], lot 5672, to Gastinet for 1,610 livres);

Jacques, comte de Béraudiére (sold, Paris,

May 18-30,1885, part of lot 902); [Duveen

Brothers, New York]; Anna Thomson

Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms,

Michigan (sold, Christie's, London, June 24,

1971, lot 65); purchased at that sale by

J. Paul Getty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anthony Coleridge, "Works of Art with a

Royal Provenance from the Collection of

the Late Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge of

Detroit," Connoisseur 177, no. 711 (May

1971), p. 34; Pallot, L'Art du siege, p. 192,

illus., and p. 301; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire,

pp. 84-85.

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FRENCH SEAT FURNITURE 6j