122- Paneled Room
Paris, circa 1755
Painted and gilded oak; four oil-on-canvas
overdoor paintings; breche d'Alep mantel
piece; modern mirror glass; gilt-bronze
hardware
Height: 14 ft. 4 in. (436.9 cm); Width:
23 ft. 6Vz in. (718 cm); Depth: 25 ft. 6 in.
(777 cm)
Accession number 73 .DH.107
PROVENANCE
An unidentified hotel on the quai Malaquais,
Paris, until 1900; Mme Doucet, Paris, 1900-
1907; due de Gramont, avenue Georges
Mandel, Paris, 1907 (offered for sale in situ,
Ader Picard, Paris, October 9,1969, bought
in); [R. and M. Carlhian, Paris]; purchased
by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
La comtesse Jean Louis de Maigret,
"Un demi-siécle ä l'Hötel Gramont," Con
naissance des arts 141 (November 1963),
p. 92, illus.- Paneled Room
Paris, circa 1770-1775
Painted and gilded oak; plaster overdoors;
mirror glass; breche d'Alep mantelpiece;
gilt-bronze hardware
Height (without cornice): 15 ft. % in.
(458 cm); Width: 30 ft. 4V16 in. (925 cm);
Depth: 20 ft. y^7 /s in. (627 cm)
Accession number 84 .DH.34
PROVENANCE
[Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1920s];
[Fran$ois-Gerard Seligmann, Paris]. - Paneled Room
Paris, circa 1788-1789
Panels attributed to Rousseau de la Rottiére
after designs by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Painted and gilded oak; plaster overdoors;
mirror glass; white marble mantelpiece
Four Double Doors: Height: 9 ft. 5 %. in.
(287.7 cm); Width (of one door): 2 ft. 3% in.
(70.5 cm); Four Large Panels: Height:
9 ft. 5/8 in. (297.3 cm); Width: 2 ft. 8^34 in.
(83.2 cm); Five Panels: Height: 9 ft. 3% in.
(285.1 cm); Width: ι ft. 6Yz in. (46.9 cm);
Four Panels: Height: 9 ft. 3% in. (285.1 cm);
Width: ι ft. Yz in. (31.8 cm); Four Over
doors: Height: 2 ft.^34 in. (90.8 cm); Width:
5 ft.^34 in. (167 cm)
Accession number (moldings only)
91 .DH.-60.1-.26
PROVENANCE
"Grand salon," Maison Hosten, rue Saint-
Georges, Paris, until circa 1892; Mme C.
Lelong, Paris, after 1892; Fournier, Paris,
8θ FRENCH PANELING