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several chairs and a couch are arranged in a circle on a white backgrounda picture of a couch with a picture of angels and flowers on ita couch that has a picture on the back of ita couch with a floral design on it in front of a floral wallpapera chair that has a floral upholstered seat on ita chair that is sitting on a rug on the flooran old chair with a floral upholstered seat on a rugan image of a chair with a floral upholstered seat on a ruga close up of a chair with a floral design on ita chair that has a floral design on the back of ita painting of a bunch of flowers on a canvasan image of a chair and a bed in a rooma couch that is sitting on a rug in front of a walla chair that is sitting on a rug in front of a walla close up of a wooden table with a black and white rug in the background
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80 - A significant set of Louis XVI-style living room furniture, …
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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A significant set of Louis XVI-style living room furniture, decorated with Gobelins tapestries based on original cartoons by Jules CHERET, commissioned by Maurice FENAILLE around 1908 for his villa in Neuilly-sur-Seine The set comprises a suite of six armchairs and a pair of sofas with medallion-shaped backs in natural wood, carved and moulded on all sides with small flowers, ribbon bows, foliage and rows of pearls (showing pitting and wear) Dimensions of the armchairs: Height: 95cm Width: 58.5cm Depth: 53cm Dimensions of the sofas: Height: 95cm Width: 157cm Depth: 56cm Maurice Fenaille (1855–1937), a French industrialist, collector, art historian and patron of the arts, and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, owed his fortune primarily to the oil trade and to ‘Saxoléine’, a petroleum-based lamp oil intended for lighting, from the very beginning of the oil era. He commissioned Jules Chéret (1836–1932) to produce around thirty advertising posters between 1891 and 1900, to promote his lighting and lubrication products, and entrusted him with the decoration of his villa at 19 Rue de la Ferme, Neuilly (1895–1896). Gustave Geffroy took over as head of the Gobelins Manufactory in 1905, steering production in a new direction. A former art critic and one of the leading advocates of Impressionism, he commissioned modern artists, whereas his predecessors had called upon the great academic decorative painters. In 1908, he began collaborating with Jules Cheret on tapestry designs, decorative tapestries and upholstery tapestries. In a letter written from the Villa Marie Antoinette in Nice on 8 March 1908 to Maurice Fenaille, he stated that he was very happy to have been working with him for over twenty years and wrote, “I am finishing the paintings for the second sofa and the last armchair in the set.”
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Auction time 10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
Lot description modified on 07/31/2026 at 11:26 AM
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