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Lot Essay
Sulpice Brizard, maître in 1762.
Born in Paris around 1735, Sulpice Brizard distinguished himself throughout the second half of the 18th century by creating particularly elegant and sophisticated seats, as illustrated by this pair of bergères. In the 1760s, Sulpice Brizard married Marie-Geneviève Meunier, herself the daughter of a carpenter. As the son-in-law of a master carpenter, he became master in 1761, and lived on rue de Bourbon. On 11 December he bought the stocks of the recently deceased carpenter François Foliot for 3130 livres. The workshop, called 'Au Duc de Bretagne', was located on rue de Cléry, a stronghold of Parisian carpenters in the 18th century. On 13 February 1762, he officially registered his master's license and began work. In 1799, he was still working at number 262 rue Cléry. His work remains little documented today, but we do know that he worked with the chair sculptors François-Marie Chaillou and Vallois and that he supplied chairs to the upholsterer Bouché in 1774. In 1788 he supplied a bed to the Count of Montmorin, and according to some authors he even worked for the court at the very beginning of the reign of Louis XVI.
We know from a watercolor by Eugène Lami that this pair of bergères sat in the Salon Louis XIV, also known as the Salon de réception, where they can be seen next to Baron James. Also this pair bears the label Salon vert, most probably referring to the salon of the hôtel Saint-Florentin belonging to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.
Born in Paris around 1735, Sulpice Brizard distinguished himself throughout the second half of the 18th century by creating particularly elegant and sophisticated seats, as illustrated by this pair of bergères. In the 1760s, Sulpice Brizard married Marie-Geneviève Meunier, herself the daughter of a carpenter. As the son-in-law of a master carpenter, he became master in 1761, and lived on rue de Bourbon. On 11 December he bought the stocks of the recently deceased carpenter François Foliot for 3130 livres. The workshop, called 'Au Duc de Bretagne', was located on rue de Cléry, a stronghold of Parisian carpenters in the 18th century. On 13 February 1762, he officially registered his master's license and began work. In 1799, he was still working at number 262 rue Cléry. His work remains little documented today, but we do know that he worked with the chair sculptors François-Marie Chaillou and Vallois and that he supplied chairs to the upholsterer Bouché in 1774. In 1788 he supplied a bed to the Count of Montmorin, and according to some authors he even worked for the court at the very beginning of the reign of Louis XVI.
We know from a watercolor by Eugène Lami that this pair of bergères sat in the Salon Louis XIV, also known as the Salon de réception, where they can be seen next to Baron James. Also this pair bears the label Salon vert, most probably referring to the salon of the hôtel Saint-Florentin belonging to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.