PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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A SET COMPRISING A BERGÈRE with a violin-shaped cabriolet ba…
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270
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A SET COMPRISING A BERGÈRE with a violin-shaped cabriolet ba…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
A SET COMPRISING A BERGÈRE with a violin-shaped cabriolet backrest and A PAIR OF WIDE ARMCHAIRS with Louis XVI-style medallion cabriolet backrests - Napoleon III period, in moulded, carved and gilded wood, decorated with friezes of piastres, and friezes of pearls and acanthus leaves on the bergère; tapered, fluted legs with rudenté detailing on the bergère
Modern upholstery in red-orange fabric (worn on the armchairs, with a cushion on the bergère)
Armchairs. 86.5 x 59 x 52 cm
Bergère. 95 x 73 x 67 cm
(Minor loss of gilding)
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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