Arm Chair, ca. 1785

  • Beauvais Manufactory, French

Silk and wool cover (beauvais tapestry), carved and gilded beechwood frame

  • Overall: 39 1/8 × 30 1/2 × 25 7/8 inches (99.4 × 77.5 × 65.7 cm)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

F71.53

Comte Boni de Castellane, full name Marie-Ernest Paul Boniface [1867-1932] (Château de Rochecotte, Indre-et-Loire, France)

(Charles Wertheimer, dealer, London, England)

J. Pierpont Morgan [1838-1913] (London, England) 1912, shipped to (New York, New York, USA)

1915, (Duveen Brothers, dealer, New York, New York, USA)

1932, acquired from Duveen by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Darcel, Alfred and E. Guichard. Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble (Mobilier National): Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs, vol. 1. Paris, 1878, no. 87. Robinson, Edward. "The Morgan Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 8 (June 1913): 117. Guide to the Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1914, section 18, facing p. 115 (ill.). A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, unpaginated. Collection de Monsieur W. B. [Willy Blumenthal]. Sales cat., Paris, November 29, 1935, lot 118. A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, unpaginated. Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs. Exh. cat., Musee Nissim de Camondo. Paris, 1973, no. 233. Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 20, pp. 93-6, ill. p. 95. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, mentioned in checklist, p. 75.

Beauvais Manufactory, Arm Chair, ca. 1785, silk and wool cover (Beauvais tapestry), carved and gilded beechwood frame. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, F71.53.