19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE

The design for the present lot is closely related to the celebrated model made for Marie Antoinette’s Salon des Jeux de la Reine at both Fontainbleau and Compiègne. Jean Hauré received the commission in May 1786, requesting forty ployants, twelve tabouret, a folding screen and a fire screen. Twenty of the stools were sent to the Queen’s Salon de Jeux at Fontainbleau, and an additional order of twenty-four ployants, twelve additional tabourets, a chamber screen and a fire screen for Compiègne. These were the collaborative result of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803) who built the beechwood frames, the carved ornament was executed by Nicolas François Vallois (1744-1788) and the painting and gilding done by Louis François Chatard (1749-1819).