By JACOB or JACOB FRERES, not signed. Epoque Directoire
Dimensions : H : 35,4 in – W : 26,4 in – D : 22,8 in
This armchair is inspired by an ink drawing made in 1795 by Charles Percier et Pierre-François Léonard Fontaine by Georges Jacob.
He belonged to a private hotel collection (2) and confirm the excellence of the work of the Jacob brothers.
It is part of the search for the new forms and corresponds to the expression of the taste for the antique that is expressed in the late eighteenth century, in all areas of art. The architecture of this chair is inspired by the seats of the high magistrates of Rome, and reflects a form of power.
This armchair testifies to the inheritance and the continuity of th forms of furniture under Georges II Jacob and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob from 1796 to 1803. Georges Jacob executes the first curules and the model continues with his two sons. We know several seats of this type stamped Georges Jacob or bearing the two stamps G.Jacob and Jacob Frères Rue Meslée.
We can compare our armchair with two others :
- a mahogany armchair belonging to the Brune collection (sale in Paris 15/02/78, n°96)
- and an armchair from the Tuileries (see reproduction in Mobilier français Consulat et Empire, Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Paris, 2009, Gourcouff Gradenigo Ed., p27, fig2.)
