A Consulat carved mahogany fauteuil de bureau by Georges Jacob, circa 1805

Château de Villepreux;

Lasseron & Associes, Le Château de Villepreux - Demeure des Bertin de Veaux, 8 November 2016, lot 95.

A pair of chairs stamped Jacob-frères, Rue Meslée with an identical pierced backrest and in addition with the mark of the Château des Tuileries is at the Musée Marmottan (one illustrated in Sylvie Chadenet, Les Styles Empire-Restauration, Paris Sd., Baschet Ed., p.65, fig. 2.). A set of seating furniture comprising two sofas, three bergères, ten fauteuils and six chairs with similar backrests was also delivered by the Jacob brothers in 1802 for the Palais de Saint-Cloud (today at the Mobilier National, Paris, GMT 1528).

The Château de Villepreux where this fauteuil once stood is an 18th-century château located a few kilometres from Versailles, in Villepreux. Owned by the Bertin de Veaux family and their descendants since the early 19th century, the salons of this house were, until the collection sale in November 2016, one of the rare examples of what the grand salons of the Empire and Restoration periods might have been like.