- Four Armchairs (fauteuih a L· reiné)
and One Settee
Paris, circa 1770-1775
By Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Tilliard
Gessoed and gilded beech; modern silk
velvet upholstery
Each piece stamped TILLIARD under rear
seat rail.
Chairs: Height: 3 ft. 4 in. (101.6 cm); Width:
2 ft. 5% in. (75 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 5% in.
(74.9 cm); Settee: Height: 3 ft. n^3 /s in.
(120.3 cm); Width: 7 ft. 6/2 in. (229.7 cm);
Depth: 3 ft. i*4 in. (94.6 cm)
Accession number 78.DA.99.1—.5
PROVENANCE
Mortimer L. Schiff, New York (sold by his
heir John L. Schiff, Christie's, London,June 22,1938, lot 55); purchased at that sale
by J. Paul Getty for Sutton Place, Surrey;
distributed by the estate of J. Paul Getty to
the J. Paul Getty Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, Selections, no. 46, pp. 92-93, illus.;
Handbook1986, p. 174, illus. (one); Pallot,
L'Artdu siege, p. 218, illus., and p. 318;
Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 840; Handbook
1991, p. 190, illus. (one).- Four Side Chairs (chaises a L· reine)
Paris, 1780-1781
By Fran$ois-Toussaint Foliot after designs
by Jacques Gondoin
Gessoed and gilded beech, modern silk
upholstery
One chair stenciled GARDE MEUBLE DE
LA REINE under seat rail. Another bears a
label inscribed Ex museo L.Double.
Height: 2 ft. 11 in. (89 cm); Width:
ι ft. 9% in. (55 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10% in.
(56.5 cm)
Accession number 71 .DA.93.1-.4
PROVENANCE
Marie-Antoinette, Salon du Rocher,
"Hameau de la Reine," Petit Trianon,
Versailles, ordered from the menuisier
Fran9ois-Toussaint Foliot on November 29,
1780; (?) removed from the Chateau de
Versailles, 1791; Leopold Double, Paris
(sold, Paris, May 30-June 1,1881, lot 427);
Henri, comte de Greffulhe, Paris; [Duveen
Brothers, New York]; Anna Thomson
One of four 999968 FRENCH SEAT FURNITURE