A SET CONSISTING OF A BERGERE WITH A VIOLON-SHAPED CABRIOLET...
A SET CONSISTING OF A BERGERE WITH A VIOLON-SHAPED CABRIOLET BACKREST AND A PAIR OF WIDE ARMCHAIRS WITH MEDALLION-STYLE CABRIOLET BACKRESTS IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE - Napoleon III period, made of molded, carved, and gilded wood with a decoration of piastre friezes, as well as 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 losses 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 armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
A SET CONSISTING OF A BERGERE WITH A VIOLON-SHAPED CABRIOLET BACKREST AND A PAIR OF WIDE ARMCHAIRS WITH MEDALLION-STYLE CABRIOLET BACKRESTS IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE - Napoleon III period, made of molded, carved, and gilded wood with a decoration of piastre friezes, as well as 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 losses 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 armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
