Armchair, c. 1796
Mahogany (modern upholstery)expand_more
The Groves Foundation Fundexpand_more 81.102
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This chair came from a suite of furniture created for the royal Palace of Fontainebleau south of Paris. It is based on a pattern by the French architects and designers Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, and executed by the master wood-carver and joiner Georges Jacob of Paris.
Percier and Fontaine played an important role in the development and spread of the Neoclassical style during the late 1700s. In 1801, they published the first installment of a highly influential pattern book with designs based on archaeological discoveries at the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum near Naples, Italy, which Percier and Fontaine sketched during their travels. The designers borrowed certain elements directly from those newly discovered sources, such as the sphinxes supporting the arms of this chair, as well as from Egyptian antiquity, seen in the sphinxes’ headdresses.
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- Armchair
- Artist Life
- 1764–1838
- Role
- Designer
- Accession Number
- 81.102
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