A pair of French fauteuils à la reine
by Pierre Nogaret
Beech, tapestry cover in dyed wool and silk over upholstery. Wide armchairs with tall cartouche-form backrests. The front aprons and upper parts of the armrests carved with floral motifs. Moulded serpentine supports and upholstered turned wood armrests. Stamped "NOGARET A.LYON" on the rear frame of the backrests. H 101, W 73, seat depth 54 cm.
Lyon, around 1750, the tapestry attributed to Aubusson.
Pierre Nogaret was one of the most important seating furniture makers of the Louis XV era. He was born in Paris, spent his apprenticeship there and moved to Lyon in 1743, where he ran a workshop together with François Girard. Shortly afterwards, he opened his own workshop with great success. His seating furniture quickly became highly acclaimed. His works were characterised by an innovative formal vocabulary, high quality and striking foliate carvings and were in no way inferior to those from the French capital.
Provenance
Fischer-Böhler, Munich.
The L. Collection.
Literature
The Menusier in Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 2008, p. 650 ff.
Cf. the stamp in Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, vol. II, Dijon 1993, p. 73.