A LOUIS XV CREAM AND GREEN-PAINTED FAUTEUIL DE BUREAU
Lot 348 THE ESTATE OF LYNN WOLFSON

A LOUIS XV CREAM AND GREEN-PAINTED FAUTEUIL DE BUREAU

BY CLAUDE LOUIS BURGAT, CIRCA 1750

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A LOUIS XV CREAM AND GREEN-PAINTED FAUTEUIL DE BUREAU
BY CLAUDE LOUIS BURGAT, CIRCA 1750
The arched caned back on foliate-headed cabriole legs, the top of central front leg incised 'A.T.L. 1757', stamped 'C.L. BURGAT', decoration refreshed

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (1877-1964).
Acquired from Matthew Schutz, New York.

Note du spécialiste

Claude Louis Burgat, maître in 1744.

CONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN
The daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Smith Belmont, Consuelo became a celebrated debutante at her parents' Newport residence, Marble House, where in August of 1895 she met Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. She married the Duke that autumn and returned to England to live at Blenheim Palace. She separated from the 9th Duke in 1905 and was officially divorced in 1920. The following summer she married the French aviator and her close friend, Jacques Balsan. Settling in France, they divided their time between the splendid 17th century Château de Saint-Georges-Motel, near Eure, Normandy and the hôtel Marlborough, Paris, both of which they filled with exceptional French furniture and works of art of the ancien regime. Fleeing to America and Palm Beach in 1940, much of Colonel and Madame Balsan's collection was recorded for posterity by L.-H. Prost, Collection de Madame et du Colonel Balsan, Paris, privately printed, circa 1930.