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拍品专文
Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
These superbly carved petites marquises, of diminutive scale, with their flower-filled entrelac frames and delicately beaded details, relate to the celebrated Royal suite of mobilier delivered by Georges Jacob in 1787-8 for the Salon des Jeux du Roi at the château de Saint-Cloud. The initial order on 31 October 1787 comprised sixty two pieces of furniture including, twelve fauteuils meublants, two large canapés, six fauteuils courants, two bergères, twenty-four chaises and six voyeuses. Four additional fauteuils meublants were ordered on 21 February 1788. In his bill for the fauteuils meublants, each of which Jacob charged the exceptional price of 444 livres, he describes them as:
Seize grands fauteuils meublans (sic) la Reine, faits en bois de noyer de la plus belle qualité, cintrés en plan, les pieds tournés et ornés de riches profils de moulure; les accotoirs en bateau, entaillés et faisant raccord aux montans, le tout pris en gros bois, ornés et richement sculptés...
He then describes at remarkable length the carved detail of the frames, for which he supplied both the carving and the gilding, while the upholsterer Capin supplied the silk covers. The suite was recorded in a 1789 inventory at Saint-Cloud, while in 1798 part of it remained there and part was almost certainly sent to the Palais Directorial. In 1827 the suite was partially dispersed by the Garde-Meuble royal. However, pieces from the suite have subsequently been reacquired including:
A canapé, four fauteuils, six chaises, two tabourets and a bergère acquired by the Château de Versailles in the 1970s (inv. No. V4925; V4926; V4936; V4930). A further pair of fauteuils are now in the Museé du Louvre (inv. OA9449A & OA9449B ), three fauteuils and three chaises are now in the Museé Condé, Chantilly (OA405; OA406; OA407; OA408; OA409; OA410).
A further fauteuil à la reine, from the 1787 suite is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the gift of Hoentschel-Morgan in 1907 (acc. No. 07.225.107).
Further seat furniture of this model which encapsulated ‘l' aboutissement parfait du style Louis XVI’ (B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Paris, 1993, vol.II, p. 168) and which, because of the richness of their execution seem almost exclusively reserved for Royal circles, were supplied by Jacob to the comte de Vaudreuil, grand fauconnier de France and an intimate of Marie Antoinette. In her Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817), sitting in an armchair, 1784, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (sold Christie’s, Paris, 18 May 2022, lot 232) the artist depicted the comte seated on one of the fauteuils supplied to him by Jacob.
Georges Jacob also supplied further versions of this model to the comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI (now in the château de Versailles). Another pair of fauteuils by Jacob, with closely related entrelac frames, was supplied circa 1788 by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, for one of the bedrooms at Carlton House, the London palace he was lavishly decorating in the latest French taste (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue et al., Buckingham Palace, New York, 1968, p. 216).
These superbly carved petites marquises, of diminutive scale, with their flower-filled entrelac frames and delicately beaded details, relate to the celebrated Royal suite of mobilier delivered by Georges Jacob in 1787-8 for the Salon des Jeux du Roi at the château de Saint-Cloud. The initial order on 31 October 1787 comprised sixty two pieces of furniture including, twelve fauteuils meublants, two large canapés, six fauteuils courants, two bergères, twenty-four chaises and six voyeuses. Four additional fauteuils meublants were ordered on 21 February 1788. In his bill for the fauteuils meublants, each of which Jacob charged the exceptional price of 444 livres, he describes them as:
Seize grands fauteuils meublans (sic) la Reine, faits en bois de noyer de la plus belle qualité, cintrés en plan, les pieds tournés et ornés de riches profils de moulure; les accotoirs en bateau, entaillés et faisant raccord aux montans, le tout pris en gros bois, ornés et richement sculptés...
He then describes at remarkable length the carved detail of the frames, for which he supplied both the carving and the gilding, while the upholsterer Capin supplied the silk covers. The suite was recorded in a 1789 inventory at Saint-Cloud, while in 1798 part of it remained there and part was almost certainly sent to the Palais Directorial. In 1827 the suite was partially dispersed by the Garde-Meuble royal. However, pieces from the suite have subsequently been reacquired including:
A canapé, four fauteuils, six chaises, two tabourets and a bergère acquired by the Château de Versailles in the 1970s (inv. No. V4925; V4926; V4936; V4930). A further pair of fauteuils are now in the Museé du Louvre (inv. OA9449A & OA9449B ), three fauteuils and three chaises are now in the Museé Condé, Chantilly (OA405; OA406; OA407; OA408; OA409; OA410).
A further fauteuil à la reine, from the 1787 suite is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the gift of Hoentschel-Morgan in 1907 (acc. No. 07.225.107).
Further seat furniture of this model which encapsulated ‘l' aboutissement parfait du style Louis XVI’ (B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Paris, 1993, vol.II, p. 168) and which, because of the richness of their execution seem almost exclusively reserved for Royal circles, were supplied by Jacob to the comte de Vaudreuil, grand fauconnier de France and an intimate of Marie Antoinette. In her Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817), sitting in an armchair, 1784, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (sold Christie’s, Paris, 18 May 2022, lot 232) the artist depicted the comte seated on one of the fauteuils supplied to him by Jacob.
Georges Jacob also supplied further versions of this model to the comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI (now in the château de Versailles). Another pair of fauteuils by Jacob, with closely related entrelac frames, was supplied circa 1788 by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, for one of the bedrooms at Carlton House, the London palace he was lavishly decorating in the latest French taste (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue et al., Buckingham Palace, New York, 1968, p. 216).