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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS A LA REINE AND A CHASSIS, CIRCA 1765
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2020年11月20日 开拍 / 2020年11月19日 截止委托
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Description A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS A LA REINE AND A CHASSIS, CIRCA 1765 with two-tone gilding and 18th-century Aubusson tapestry covers depicting two allegories of Water and Air and scenes from La Fontaine's Fables height 41 1/2 in.; width 33 1/2 in.; depth 26 in. 105.5 cm; 85 cm; 66 cm Condition Report To request a condition report for this lot, please contact?DecorativeArtsNY@sothebys.com. Literature P. Arizzoli-Clémentel, Versailles Furniture?of the Royal Palace: 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol. II, Dijon 2002, no.67 p.197-200 Bill G.P. Pallot, L'art du siège au XVIII siècle en France, Paris 1987; the canapé?illustrated p.262 Bill G.B. Pallot,? Le Mobilier du musée du Louvre, Vol.II, Paris 1993 Musée National du Chateau de Versailles,? 18e aux Sources du Design, exhibition catalogue, 2014 Provenance Possibly Prince Wenzel Johann von Paar, Palais Paar, Vienna Collection of Madame Heidelbach, Paris, 16 December 1933, lot 34 Anonymous sale, Paris, 25 June 1968, lot 135 Didier Aaron, Paris Notes This?magnificent?pair (with lots?) represents a?pinnacle of the French menuisier's art of the late Louis XV period on the eve of the transition to neoclassicism, and the sculptural quality of the carving and contrast between the two colours of gilding, with the foliate elements highlighted in green tones against a yellow gold ground, creates an effect of magnificence almost unprecedented in Parisian chair design. When the suite was sold from the Heidelbach collection in 1933, the provenance given was the Princes of Paar collection. Pallot has associated this group with two suites of canapés and fauteuils à la Reine?et à?chassis acquired by the Banque de France in 1922 which came from the Palais Paar in Vienna (Pallot 1987, p.258-61). The two Banque de France sets (one with a canapé and four fauteuils, the other with a canapé and six fauteuils) and the Zilkha set all have variations to the carving among them, but all three suites share the same overall design of wide seat and back rails à?chassis carved with floral and foliate sprays in high relief, and highly sinuous armrest supports?twisting outwards. One of the Banque de France sets unusually integrates a pierced acanthus spray in the centre of the crest rail that is paralleled by a similar pierced acanthus shell centering the seat rail on the Zilkha suite.?The similarities in construction and composition are such that all three sets must emanate form the same workshop. In the absence of stamps any?attribution can only be speculative, but the quality and?bravura of the design points to a leading Parisian maker such as the menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi?Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706-1776, ma?tre in 1729). The fluidity of the legs and armrests and boldly carved foliate elements are reminiscent of Foliot's exceptional set of two canapés and 12 fauteuils à la Reine?et à?chassis after a design by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry supplied to the Tapestry Room of the Danish Ambassador to Paris Count Bernstoff's palace in Copenhagen in the mid-1750s, now in the Metropolitan Museum (illustrated in Pallot, p.168-69). The design of the Bernstoff suite represents a somewhat pared-down version of the set of fauteuils Foliot provided for Louis XV's daughter Elisabeth de France, Madame Infante at the Court of Parma, also designed by Contant d'Ivry, three of which survive and are now in a private collection, the Metropolitan Museum and the Hermitage (Versailles exhibition, no.22 p.118-19). Another candidate for authorship could be Nicolas Heurtaut (1720-1771, ma?tre in 1755), who also produced several seminal groups of?animated and magistrally carved fauteuils à?chassis for important clients in the 1750s,?including the Comtesse de Séran, now mainly at Versailles, and the Bishop of Poitiers, now in the Louvre (Pallot 1993, n.23 p.80-83).?Another fauteuil by Heurtaut formerly with Jansen employs a pierced scrolled shell on the centre of the seat rail, similar to that on the Zilkha chairs. Such similarities?are not?conclusive however, and an alternative possibility is that?both the Zilkha and Banque de France suites were produced by French menuisiers working in Vienna, adapting Parisian models somewhat to account for local taste. THE PALAIS PAAR The Palais Paar was built in 1630 for Johan Christoph von Paar, postmaster?general of Austria, at no.30 Wollzeile, Vienna, not far from the Stefansdom. Between 1765 and 1771 his descendent Count (later Prince) Wenzel Johann von Paar commissioned the expatriate French architect Isidor Canevale (1730-1786) to refurbish the Palace's apartments in a late rococo style. His scheme was so well received that the 1792 Vienna travel guide Nützliches Adress und Reisebuch declared, 'The House of Prince Paar…especially deserves to be seen because of the splendour of its interior settings, carried out under the direction of the architect Canevale'. After the First World War, partially in response to the new republican government's tax policies, the family decided?to no longer?maintain the palace as a primary residence and began selling or transferring the contents to other properties, including the 18th century boiseries designed by Canevale, which were sold to the Paris decorating firm of Jansen. By the 1930s the building was an empty shell, and its condition deteriorating rapidly, it was eventually pulled down in 1938. In 1963?a portion?of the original paneling was acquired by Mr and Mrs Charles Wrightsman for the Metropolitan Museum and now forms part of the Wrightsman Galleries. THE HEIDELBACH COLLECTION Alfred Heidelbach (1851-1922) was a wealthy American financier of German origin, who settled in Paris with his wife Julie, née Picard, in the early 20th century. They commissioned René Sergent, architect of?the Nissim de Camondo mansion,?to build?their private residence at 19?Avenue d'Iéna between 1912 and 1915, considered the last great Parisian h?tel particulier of the Belle Epoque to be constructed.?The H?tel Heidelbach (now an annex of the Musée?Guimet) housed the couple's collection of 18th century fine and decorative arts, and the Heidelbachs frequented fellow wealthy collectors and art lovers?in?Paris including the Camondos. On Alfred's death in 1922 a?significant group of French and German porcelain was bequeathed to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and the rest of the collection was sold after his widow's passing in 1933.

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