View full screen - View 1 of Lot 15. A Royal Louis XVI giltwood and cream painted bergère, circa 1774, stamped by Jean-René Nadal l’Aîné, commissioned for the Comte d’Artois at the Château de Fontainebleau.

A Royal Louis XVI giltwood and cream painted bergère, circa 1774, stamped by Jean-René Nadal l’Aîné, commissioned for the Comte d’Artois at the Château de Fontainebleau

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8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

decorated with twisted ribbons, with a basket-handle shaped backrest, arm supports carved with large oak leaves, on fluted tapered legs, with a blue and white damasked silk with neoclassical motifs upholstery made by maison Tassinari Lefèvre, stamped NADAL L’AINE, with the branded mark of the Comte d’Artois’s private Garde-Meuble ; (regilt)


Haut. 97 cm, larg. 68 1/2 cm, prof. 57 cm ; Height 31 1/4 in., width 27 in., depth 22 1/2 in.

The private appartment of comte d'Artois, future Charles X, king of France, at the château de Fontainebleau, cabinet intérieur and cabinet de l'entresol, circa 1774

Related literature

JJ Gautier, "Le goût du prince", in La Folie Artois, Tolède, 1988, pp.81-117.

V. Cochet, D'un palais à l'autre Des sièges du comte d'Artois au service de Joséphine, La Revue des Musées de France, 2015, n°1.

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