拍品专文
NICOLAS HEURTAUT
Nicolas Heurtaut, elected maître-menuisier on 22 August 1753, had already been appointed sculpteur en bois in 1742. Established in the rue Bourbon, he worked with numerous marchands-tapissiers but also enjoyed the patronage of a wide clientele.
These fauteuils belong to a celebrated suite of seat-furniture, elements of which are stamped by Nicolas Heurtaut. It comprises:
-a pair of fauteuils, unstamped, upholstered in contemporary tapestry woven with poppies, sold in Paris, 22 March 1983, lot 84
-another pair, stamped by Heurtaut, sold in Monaco, Ader Picard Tajan, 27 May 1984, lot 104 and again at Sotheby's Monaco, 26 February 1992, lot 191; illustrated in B.Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIème Siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p.251.
-another, stamped, sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 3 May 1986, lot 86.
-a final fauteuil in the Cleveland Museum, attributed by M. Hawley to Heurtaut.
This suite therefore originally comprised eight fauteuils in the 18th Century.
Nicolas Heurtaut, elected maître-menuisier on 22 August 1753, had already been appointed sculpteur en bois in 1742. Established in the rue Bourbon, he worked with numerous marchands-tapissiers but also enjoyed the patronage of a wide clientele.
These fauteuils belong to a celebrated suite of seat-furniture, elements of which are stamped by Nicolas Heurtaut. It comprises:
-a pair of fauteuils, unstamped, upholstered in contemporary tapestry woven with poppies, sold in Paris, 22 March 1983, lot 84
-another pair, stamped by Heurtaut, sold in Monaco, Ader Picard Tajan, 27 May 1984, lot 104 and again at Sotheby's Monaco, 26 February 1992, lot 191; illustrated in B.Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIème Siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p.251.
-another, stamped, sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 3 May 1986, lot 86.
-a final fauteuil in the Cleveland Museum, attributed by M. Hawley to Heurtaut.
This suite therefore originally comprised eight fauteuils in the 18th Century.