Live Auction 17346Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection
A EMPIRE GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL
Lot 75

A EMPIRE GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL

BY EITHER JACOB-DESMALTER OR PIERRE-BENOÎT MARCION, CIRCA 1810

Closed19 September 2019

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A EMPIRE GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL
BY EITHER JACOB-DESMALTER OR PIERRE-BENOÎT MARCION, CIRCA 1810
The rectangular back and bow-fronted seat covered in blue fabric, the channelled frame carved with berried laurel and flowerheads, the arms headed by shells and terminating in stylised acanthus scrolls, above baluster turned and leaf-wrapped supports, the rails centred by foliate wreaths flanked by stylised foliate branches, above baluster-turned and leaf-wrapped legs, branded 'FON' and with three crowned fleur-de-lys, and with blue stencilled number 'F-16179'
36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

Château de Fontainebleau.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 July 2006, Lot 163.

Specialist note

The present fauteuil was almost certainly supplied to Fontainebleau circa 1804-1806 but cannot be attributed firmly to either of the two makers who supplied furniture to the château, Jacob-Desmalter and Marcion, since they worked in a very similar style and were producing exactly the same models.