Lyre-Back Side Chair, ca. 1785

  • French

Gilded and painted wood with silk damask upholstery

  • Overall: 36 × 18 × 17 1/2 inches (91.4 × 45.7 × 44.5 cm)

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

71.189

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Grazia, dealer, Paris, France)

1931, acquired through L. Alavoine (agent) by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

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

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): 43-51. "La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (January 1972): supplement, p. 93, fig. 324. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, MI, 1981, unnumbered. 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. 18, pp. 89-90, color repr. p. 89.

French, Lyre-Back Side Chair, ca. 1785, gilded and painted wood with silk damask upholstery. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.189.