Live Auction 7586West ~ East - The Niall Hobhouse Collection
French School, circa 1770
Lot 158

French School, circa 1770

A design for a chenet

Closed22 May 2008

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GBP 1,125

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French School, circa 1770
A design for a chenet
pen and black ink, black and grey wash, unidentified watermark, on three joined sheets
18 3/8 x 17¼ in. (46.7 x 43.8 cm.)

Georges de Belder (Dates untraceable), Belgium.

Specialist note

This design in the Louis XVI 'antique' fashion, for an ornamental fire-dog (chenet) celebrates lyric poetry and the harvest season of Autumn, and can be attributed to the sculptor bronze-founder Jean-Louis Prieur, author of Principes de dessin, 1783, and self-styled 'sculpteur, cizeleur et doreur du Roy'. A related design, with harvesting youth celebrating the Feast of Bacchus, is preserved in the Odiot album, discussed by H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 199, fig. 33.14.7.