Four Louis XVI period Chairs

Four Louis XVI period Chairs

• Localisation : The Music Room
• Année de création :1787
• Artiste :Georges Jacob

Description

Carved and gilded beech wood. Louis XVI chairs, covered in watered silk.

The decorator Eugène Lami had the Duke of Aumale purchase these four prestigious chairs from Étienne-Anne Escudier’s curiosity shop in 1845. The four chairs were ordered in 1787 from Georges Jacob by King Louis XVI for his Games Room in the Château de Saint-Cloud.