PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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Louis XVI-style sofa with a rectangular backrest – Napoleon …
See original version (French)
262
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Louis XVI-style sofa with a rectangular backrest – Napoleon …
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Louis XVI-style sofa with a rectangular backrest – Napoleon III period, made of moulded wood carved with small floral motifs, gilded and re-lacquered in cream, with upright posts topped with an acanthus plume, and six tapered fluted legs
Back upholstery in embossed velvet with silver stripes on a beige background
105 x 135 x 71 cm
(signs of wear and loss of gilding and paint; one upright reinforced)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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