About the Artwork
Arm Chair
c. 1780/1785
Georges Jacob (Artist) French, 1739-1814 Beauvais Manufactory (Manufacturer) French
Carved and gilded beechwood frame, wool and silk upholstery (beauvais tapestry)
35 3/4 x 25 1/8 x 22 in. (90.8 x 63.8 x 55.88 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.186
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Markings
Affixed inside rear seat rail is a blue-bordered label inscribed in ink: 1391 / FAUTEUIL
Stamped under rear seat rail: G. IACOB ?Marked in blue wax crayon on the left seat rail: Under the webbing of the seat is a circular Paris customs label
Provenance
Madame Billout-Desmarets
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, sale of Madame Billout-Desmarets collection, 1 June 1923, lot 20 (to Vagliano)
Paris, André J. Seligmann (dealer)
acquired in New York in 1932 by Grosse Pointe, MI, Anna Thomson Dodge, through L. Alavoine (agent)
bequeathed to the DIA in 1971.
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Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement du XVIIIe siècle...appartenant à Madame B.-D. [Billout-Desmarets]," sales cat., 1 June 1923, lot 20.
Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51
"La chronique des arts," GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, vol 79, Jan 1972, supplement p. 93, fig. 325
Ledoux-Lebard, D. INVENTAIRE GENERAL DU MUSEE NATIONAL DE VERSAILLES ET DES TRIANONS, vol. 1 LE GRAND TRIANON: MEUBLES ET OBJETS D'ART, Paris, 1975, pp. 36-8
Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 19,
pp.91-93, repro p. 91 (entry by T. Dell)
Detroit, DIA, WOVEN SPLENDOR: FIVE CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRY AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, July-Sept 1996, mention in cat. no. 18, pp. 15, 66, color repro p.67, (entry by T. Albainy) -- not in exhibit
Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 19,
pp. 90-93, color repr. p. 91 (entry by T. Dell)
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Georges Jacob; Beauvais Manufactory, Arm Chair, c. 1780/1785, Carved and gilded beechwood frame, wool and silk upholstery (Beauvais tapestry). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.186.
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