Armchair (one of four)

Royal Manufactory Beauvais 1664-1789

1755–65 · Mahogany; wool and silk (18-21 warps per inch, 7-9 per centimeter) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This rococo chair is part of a larger set of seat furniture supplied to the third Duke of Ancaster (1714–1778) for Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Executed in the French taste, fashionable in mid-eighteenth century England, the set was originally partly gilt and upholstered with Gobelins tapestry (now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) after designs by the painter François Boucher. The present covers were applied between 1934 and 1958.

Artist

Royal Manufactory Beauvais 1664-1789

Date

1755–65

Medium

Mahogany; wool and silk (18-21 warps per inch, 7-9 per centimeter)

Culture

British and French, probably Beauvais

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964