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Lot 28 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE LEBAS, CIRCA 1760
Fermé6 December 2012
Prix réalisé
GBP 15,000
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas, maître in 1756.
The comtesse du Barry and the comte d'Artois ranked amongst hist most important patrons. He produced chairs in both the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. His sons Barthélemy and Jean-Jacques both became maîtres-ébénistes and worked with their father in the rue de Cléry.
An important set of eight fauteuils by Lebas was sold Christies, London, 19 May 1983, lot 76. A set of six Louis XV fauteuils also by Lebas, with similarly carved serpentined seatrails, was sold Christies, London, 31 March 1977, lot 26, while a closely related pair of bergéres en gondole by Pierre Forget, was sold Christie's Monaco, 16-17 June 2001, lot 642.
The comtesse du Barry and the comte d'Artois ranked amongst hist most important patrons. He produced chairs in both the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. His sons Barthélemy and Jean-Jacques both became maîtres-ébénistes and worked with their father in the rue de Cléry.
An important set of eight fauteuils by Lebas was sold Christies, London, 19 May 1983, lot 76. A set of six Louis XV fauteuils also by Lebas, with similarly carved serpentined seatrails, was sold Christies, London, 31 March 1977, lot 26, while a closely related pair of bergéres en gondole by Pierre Forget, was sold Christie's Monaco, 16-17 June 2001, lot 642.