- One Settee and Ten Armchairs
(two bergeres and eight fauteuils)
Paris, circa 1810
Frames attributed to Jacob Desmalter et
Cíe; tapestry upholstery woven at the
Beauvais manufactory
Mahogany; gilt-bronze mounts; silk and
wool tapestry upholstery
Settee: Height: 3 ft. 4% in. (102.9 cm);
Width: 6 ft. 2% in. (190.2 cm); Depth:
2 ft. V% in. (61.3 cm); Chairs: Height:
3 ft. 3^5 /8 in. (100.6 cm); Width: 2 ft. 1 in.
(63.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 7 in. (48.2 cm)
Accession number 67 .DA.6.1—.11
104
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Paris, by 1908; [Jacques
Seligmann, Paris]; Grand Duke Nicolai
Michailoff, Palais Michailoff, St. Petersburg,
purchased December 4,1912; Museums
and Palaces Collections, Palais Michailoff,
St. Petersburg (sold, Lepke, Berlin, Novem
ber 7,1928, lot 73, with a fire screen); Ives,
comte de Cambacérés, Paris; Edouard
Mortier, 5th due de Trévise, Paris (sold,
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 19, 1938, lot
47); purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
Chair .10 104
EXHIBITIONS
New York, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum,
LArt de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Designs in
France ij8p~ip8p, February-September 1989,
illus. p. 19, fig. 10 {fauteuil67.DA.6.10 only).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Decorations Interieurs et meubles des epoques
Louis XV, Louis XVI et Empire, Revue d'art
décoratif (lyoS-iyoy), illus. no. 17, pi. 7.
FRENCH SEAT FURNITURE Jl
